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Classic Bergman...

Ingmar Bergman's Magic Flute @ the Rubin Museum of Art

Ingmar Bergman puts his indelible stamp on Mozart's exquisite opera in this sublime rendering of one of the composer's best-loved works: a celebration of love, forgiveness, and the brotherhood of man. The Magic Flute (Trollflöjten) stars Josef Köstlinger as Tamino, the young man determined to rescue a beautiful princess from the clutches of parental evil.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Classic Feature..

Screening of Elia Kazan's A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN @ 92YTribeca

Elia Kazan’s first film is adapted from the popular Betty Smith novel about a girl coming of age in a family beset by poverty and alcoholism. Presented by playwright and performer Lisa Kron. Part of the series Queer/Art/Film, curated by Butt Magazine contributing editor Adam Baran and filmmaker Ira Sachs.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Great Indie Film Fest Goes Outside..

Moviehouse: CinemaParque @ Sternberg Park Handball Courts

This summer Moviehouse and the Open Space Alliance presente CinemaParque, a series of six screenings including remarkable Spanish-language shorts, videos and documentaries (complete with sub-titles.) Following each screening the audience participates in an enriching and lively conversation with the talented filmmakers and curators. The films will be projected on the handball courts of Sternberg Park in Brooklyn. Tonights show Films include:

New Children/ New York
Powerful Youth Show
Bushwick filmmakers ages 15 to 17 present honest films on their experiences with immigration, sexual identity and unfair labor practices

@ Sternberg Park Handball Courts
Location: Lorimer Street and Boerum Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: Free

Cool Screening...

NIGHT FLIGHT: BORN AGAIN @ 92YTribeca

Premiering two months before MTV's arrival, Night Flight was a glorious amalgamation of music videos, short films, cartoons, interviews, concerts, and cult movies. For many viewers, it was a video primer to the counterculture of the Reagan era, featuring artists and films that at the time could not be seen anywhere else. Now, 20 years after the final episode, the show's producers have gone into their vaults to bring you this “Best Of” program, featuring original interviews with Lou Reed, Divine, and Ozzy Osbourne, among others. Producer Stuart Shapiro in person for post-screening Q&A.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Funny Comedy at the Rooftop..

Rooftop Films presents Humpday with Musical Guests The Antlers and Open Bar Party at Fontana's @ 350 Grand Street

These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and an open bar after party!

Hump Day: Male bonding goes a little bit too far in this bromantic comedy.

It should be hilarious!

Performance by Antlers
Open After Party at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St)

@ 350 Grand Street at Essex (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $9-$25

Rooftop on a Thursday!!

Rooftop Films and BAM CinemaFEST present WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE, with performance by The Albertan and Open Bar After party!@ BAM

These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and open bar after party! And this time is no exception!

WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE- He might have been the most hated and most beloved lawyer in the world, but did anyone really know William Kunstler?

Performance by : The Albertans
After-party onsite: Open bar courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

@BAM GGMC Parking Lot
Location: Parking lot across from BAM @ Lafayette and Ashland (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $11

Bjork is Crazy... Check it out...

Screening of Voltaic: The Volta Tour @ School of Visual Arts Theater

There will be a screening of the Paris concert from Bjork's Voltaic: The Volta Tour tonight at the SVA. Should be an amazing concert that will wet the palate for the upcoming release of her new album.

Watch the Trailer

@ School of the Visual Arts
Location: 209 East 23 Street, third floor (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $13.00 - $15.00, Free poster with every purchase of a ticket!

Awesome Event!!!

Rooftop Films Presents NEW MUSLIM COOL ,Performance by Hamza and FREE WINE AND BEER RECEPTION AFTER FILMS @ Roof of El Museo del Barrio

These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and open bar after party!

Saturday: New Muslim Cool: Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young Muslim. Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people through his uncompromising music as part of the hip-hop duo M-Team. But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world.
Performance by : Hamza
After-party on the roof: Open bar courtesy of Radeberger Pilsnerand Carlo Rossi

@ Roof of El Museo del Barrio
Location: 1230 5th Ave, New York, NY (map)
Starts:8:00PM
Cost: $9- $25

Awesome Friday night..

Rooftop Films Presents WINNEBAGO MAN ,Performance by My Teenage Stride and Open Bar Party at Fontana's @ 350 Grand Street

These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and an open bar after party!
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of—after cursing
his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney’s outrageously funny
outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet
superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer sets out to find the recluse who
unwittingly became the “Winnebago Man.” This hilarious and charming
film begins as an exploration of pseudo-celebrity and viral culture,
and becomes a surprisingly poignant journey for the filmmaker, subject
and audience.

Performance by My Teenage Stride
Open After Party at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St)

@ 350 Grand Street at Essex (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $9-$25

Classic Fellini..

CabaretCinema Series: Alexei Kaleina introduces Fellini's 8 8 ½ @ Rubin Museum of Art

Fellini's semi-autobiographical story about a worshipped director (Marcello Mastroianni) who struggles half-heartedly to work on his next picture. The pressures draw him within himself, and lead to a series of flashbacks and dreams delve into his memories and fantasies.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 pm
Cost: $12

A Claymation Waking Life..

$9.99 @ 92YTribeca

“The meaning of life can be yours for just $9.99!” This is the ad that alters the life of an unemployed 28 year-old living at home. In his struggle to share his find with the world, his path crosses with those of an old man and his disgruntled guardian angel, a magician in debt, a bewitching woman who likes her men extra smooth, and a little boy who sets his piggy bank free. Based on the short stories of Etgar Keret. In stop motion animation. Director Tatia Rosenthal in person for post-screening Q&A.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Cost: $12

A Double Feature...

Desperately Seeking Susan and Smithereens w/ Susan Siedelman @ 92YTribeca

Director Susan Siedelman be presenting these two great movies that she directed. One is a classic 80s flick starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette and then the other I have never heard of. Either way you get to see two flicks and a Q&A with the director afterwards that's a definitely a good bang for you buck, should be fun!

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 10 pm
Cost: $12

For all the Foodsentric Folks..

Brooklyn Based presents DRINKS ON THE DOC, Food Inc Brooklyn Premiere @ The Bell House

As part of the Drinks on the Doc film series, Brooklyn Based is bringing the Brooklyn premiere of Food, Inc. to the Bell House.

Following the film, food writer and Brooklyn Based editor Annaliese Griffin will moderate a Q&A with director Robert Kenner, who also appears in the film.

What does the industrial food system actually look like? What are you voting against when you buy the organic greens at the farmer's market and the milk from upstate cows? Corporate and government nepotism, union busting, high

@ The Bell House
Location: 149 7th st, Brooklyn (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost:$10 SRO tickets are available in cash the night of the show

Should be Cool...

2009 New York City 48 Hour Film Project Screenings @ New York University’s Cantor Film Center

The 48 Hour Film Project gives New York City filmmaking teams one character, one line of dialogue, one genre, one prop and two days to see if they can make movie. Tonight, a collection of seven-minute movies created over the weekend of May 29th make their world premiere.

@ Cantor Film Center
Location: 36 East 8 Street (map)
Starts: 6:15pm and 8:30pm
Cost: $10

Film, Music and Booze. How Can You Go Wrong!

Rooftop Films Presents Stingray Sam,Performance by The Woes and Open Bar Party at Crunch @ 350 Grand Street

These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and open bar after party!

Saturday:Stingray Sam (New York Premiere!)-
A dazzling six-episode musical-western comedy that takes place in outer space, written, directed by and starring Cory McAbee, the creator of The American Astronaut.
Performance: The Woes
Open Bar After Party: Crunch (691 Fulton St.)

@ Brooklyn Technical High School
Location: 29 Fort Greene Place (map)
Starts:8:00PM
Cost: $9- $25

So Bad, That It's Good?

FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL PRESENTS “BAD MOVIE NIGHT”: COMPUTER BEACH PARTY @ 92YTribeca

The Found Footage Festival, the acclaimed touring showcase of odd and hilarious found videos, is proud to present “Bad Movie Night,” a special screening event featuring one of the most obscure and wonderfully awful movies ever found on VHS. Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, whose credits include The Onion and the Late Show with David Letterman, are excited to blow the dust off the forgotten 1980s sex comedy for this inaugural screening, complete with live commentary, trivia games, and other surprises. Co-presented by fellow video collectors Mark Breese and Greg DeLiso of VideoHomeSystem.com.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 7 pm
Cost: $10

Awesome Friday night..

Rooftop Films Presents Trapped Inside The Machine,Performance by Bottle Up and Go and Open Bar Party at Fontana's @ 350 Grand Street

These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and an open bar after party!

Trapped Inside The Machine-
A fun, frantic, fantastical program of films about losing your grip on reality, and reality losing its grip on the world.
Performance by Bottle Up and Go
Open After Party at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St)

@ 350 Grand Street at Essex (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $9-$25

Interested to see what comes out...

2009 New York City 48 Hour Film Project Screenings @ New York University’s Cantor Film Center

The 48 Hour Film Project gives New York City filmmaking teams one character, one line of dialogue, one genre, one prop and two days to see if they can make movie. Tonight, a collection of seven-minute movies created over the weekend of May 29th make their world premiere.

@ Cantor Film Center
Location: 36 East 8 Street (map)
Starts: 6:15pm and 8:30pm
Cost: $10

Great Screening at the Rubin..

Mirror, Mirror Screening presents Jean Cocteau's Blood of a Poet @ Rubin Museum of Art

“Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” -- Jean Cocteau

A haunting exploration of the plight of the artist, the power of metaphor and the relationship between art and dreams, divided into four sketches. One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death. Starring the photographer Lee Miller (her only cinematic appearance) and famed aerialist Barbette

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Cool Event

Cinema 16 @ Smack Mellon

Cinema 16 recreates the experience of the silent film era, as curator Molly Surno programs obscure vintage films and pairs them with contemporary New York musicians. Bands are given one month to compose a musical score in order to modernize the tradition of live music accompanying films during the 1920s.
Nick Yulman & the Bone Conductor Mechanical score three films: Georges Méliès magical short L'homme orchestre (One Man Band), Charles Bowers's long lost comical romp A Wild Roomer, and Maya Deren's surrealist masterpiece Meshes of the Afternoon.

In the era of silent film, live music enhanced the moving picture and brought communities together with a visceral, interactive audio-visual experience. Today, when the film experience has been reduced to the tiny screens of our laptops and iPods, oftentimes experienced alone, Cinema 16 offers a revival of community.

@ Smack Mellon
Location: 92 Plymouth Street (Map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: Free

Film, Booze and Tunes in Brooklyn..

Rooftop Films Presents Strongman,Performance by Midnight Masses and Open Bar Party at Crunch @ 350 Grand Street

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These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and open bar after party!

Saturday: STRONGMAN- Stanless Steel performing feats of strength! A humorous but heart-wrenching verité documentary about Stanless Steel, the only man in the world who can bend a penny with his fingers.
Performance: Midnight Masses
Open Bar After Party: Crunch (691 Fulton St.)

@ Brooklyn Technical High School
Location: 29 Fort Greene Place (map)
Starts:8:00PM
Cost: $9- $25

Awesome Event!!!!

Art By Chance Film Screening & Launch Party @ Angels & Kings

This amazing super short film event includes a screening for 31 films and four live performances supplying the soundtrack for the movies! This is going to unique event that is not to be missed and I mean come it's free!

@Angels and Kings
Location: 500 East 11th Street (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: FREE!!

Awesome Friday night..

Rooftop Films Presents Dark Toons,Performance by Javelin and Open Bar Party at Fontana's @ 350 Grand Street

These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and open bar after party!

Dark Toon- Animated short films that bring the still to life.
Performance by Javelin
Open After Party at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St)

@ 350 Grand Street at Essex (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $9-$25

Strangelove Restored!! Last Chance!!

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove @ Film Forum

Come and see the new 35mm restoration of Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove which is celebrating it's 45th anniversary! The film will be running through May 28th. Be sure to catch it!

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)
Starts:Sun/Tue/Wed/Thu: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 • Mon: 1:10, 3:20
Cost: $12

Enter To Win...

Enter To Win a pair of Tickets to Rooftop Films Friday: Dark Toons or Saturdays: Strongman @ 350 Grand Street and Brooklyn Tech

For all you loyal WUNY readers out there, we here at Whats Up NYC have acquired a pair of tickets to the May 29th and May 30th rooftop films screening/ party and want to give them to you! These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and open bar after party! So be sure to enter for your chance at the free tixs! All we need is your name and home address! Good Luck!

Friday: Dark Toon- Animated short films that bring the still to life.
Performance by Javelin
Open After Party at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St)

@ 350 Grand Street at Essex (map)
Starts: 8 Pm

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Rules and Private Policy

Saturday: STRONGMAN- Stanless Steel performing feats of strength! A humorous but heart-wrenching verité documentary about Stanless Steel, the only man in the world who can bend a penny with his fingers.
Performance: Midnight Masses
Open Bar After Party: Crunch (691 Fulton St.)

@ Brooklyn Technical High School
Location: 29 Fort Greene Place (map)
Starts:8:00PM

Enter Here!

Rules and Private Policy

Strangelove Restored!!

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove @ Film Forum

Come and see the new 35mm restoration of Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove which is celebrating it's 45th anniversary! The film will be running through May 28th. Be sure to catch it!

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)
Starts:Sun/Tue/Wed/Thu: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 • Mon: 1:10, 3:20
Cost: $12

Enter To Win..

Enter To Win a pair of Tickets to Rooftop Films Friday: Dark Toons or Saturdays: Strongman @ 350 Grand Street and Brooklyn Tech

For all you loyal WUNY readers out there, we here at Whats Up NYC have acquired a pair of tickets to the May 29th and May 30th rooftop films screening/ party and want to give them to you! These are amazing nights of entertainment that include a musical performance,a film screening and open bar after party! So be sure to enter for your chance at the free tixs! All we need is your name and home address! Good Luck!

Friday: Dark Toon- Animated short films that bring the still to life.
Performance by Javelin
Open After Party at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St)

@ 350 Grand Street at Essex (map)
Starts: 8 Pm

Enter Here!

Rules and Private Policy

Saturday: STRONGMAN- Stanless Steel performing feats of strength! A humorous but heart-wrenching verité documentary about Stanless Steel, the only man in the world who can bend a penny with his fingers.
Performance: Midnight Masses
Open Bar After Party: Crunch (691 Fulton St.)

@ Brooklyn Technical High School
Location: 29 Fort Greene Place (map)
Starts:8:00PM

Enter Here!

Rules and Private Policy

Strangelove Restored!!

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove @ Film Forum

Come and see the new 35mm restoration of Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove which is celebrating it's 45th anniversary! The film will be running through May 28th. Be sure to catch it!

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)
Starts:Sun/Tue/Wed/Thu: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 • Mon: 1:10, 3:20
Cost: $12

Strangelove Restored!!

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove @ Film Forum

Come and see the new 35mm restoration of Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove which is celebrating it's 45th anniversary! The film will be running through May 28th. Be sure to catch it!

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)
Starts:Sun/Tue/Wed/Thu: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 • Mon: 1:10, 3:20
Cost: $12

Classic Flick restored...

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove @ Film Forum

Come and see the new 35mm restoration of Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove which is celebrating it's 45th anniversary! The film will be running through May 28th. Be sure to catch it!

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)
Starts:Sun/Tue/Wed/Thu: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 • Mon: 1:10, 3:20
Cost: $12

Saturday Rooftop Insanity!!!

Rooftop Film presents Dangerous Docs and a Live performance by Drink Up Buttercup @ Brooklyn Technical High School

Tonight Rooftop Films will be screening a line up of 6 amazing Dangerous Documentarys that will not seize to amaze! Also one of my favorite bands out right now, Drink Up Buttercup will be performing. Should be an awesome event rain or shine!

@ Brooklyn Technical High School
Location: 29 Fort Greene Place (map)
Starts:8:00PM
Cost: $9- $25

HORRRRRRIFYYYYYING!!!!

Shocklines Horror Film Series | May @ 92YTribeca

April showers bring May horrors. The directorial debut of Lucky McKee, May is a bizarre, darkly comic, and bloody horror treat about a woman who puts the concept that no person is entirely good, only PARTS of them are good, into frightening practice.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 10 pm
Cost: $12

Check out the Newly Remastered Classic...

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove @ Film Forum

Come and see the new 35mm restoration of Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove which is celebrating it's 45th anniversary! The film will be running through May 28th. Be sure to catch it!

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)
Starts:Sun/Tue/Wed/Thu: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 • Mon: 1:10, 3:20
Cost: $12

Another Great Night of Cinema and Tunes

Rooftop Film presents Romantic Short Films: Endless Forgiveness , performance Acrylics and an Open bar after party! @ 350 Grand Street at Essex

Tonight Rooftop Films screening will include a line up of amazing romantic short films that will not seize to amaze! Acrylics will be performing and after the screening the party will head on over to Fontana's where there will be an open bar for Radeburger beer. Should be an awesome event!

@ 350 Grand Street at Essex (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $9

Cool Screening

CabaretCinema Series: Alexei Kaleina introduces Fellini's 8 ½ @ Rubin Museum of Art

Fellini's semi-autobiographical story about a worshipped director (Marcello Mastroianni) who struggles half-heartedly to work on his next picture. The pressures draw him within himself, and lead to a series of flashbacks and dreams delve into his memories and fantasies. Alexei Kaleina introduces the film.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Another Interesting Screening at 92YTribeca..

Screening of HERB & DOROTHY @ 92YTribeca

Here is another great screening about this cute little couple of art lovers. After the screening will be a Q&A with the director Megumi Sasaki.

Synopsis: Herb & Dorothy tells the story of how a postal clerk and a librarian built one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, the couple collected works of unknown artists based on only two rules: it had to be affordable, and it had to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Within these limits, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of their artists went on to become world-renowned: Sol LeWitt, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert and Sylvia Mangold, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Interesting Night of Film...

The Secret Science Club & Criterion Collection present A NIGHT OF SUBMARINE CINEMA @ the Bell House

Get wet and wild with surreal underwater filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Sea life has never been this sexy—or strange. Experience The Love Life of the Octopus, The Witches’ Dance, and more—all featuring “The Sounds of Science,” a 21st-century score created specially by indie rockers Yo La Tengo.

Marine scientist and filmmaker J. Rudi Strickler will be your guide to the depths with a pre-screening lecture . . .

@ The Bell House
Location: 149 7th st, Brooklyn (map)
Starts:7 PM
Cost: Free

Slammin' Short and a Sing along

SHORT SLAM #7 @ 92YTribeca

Attention Filmmakers! Come on out with your short film ( 10 minutes at the max) so you can screen it and possibly win some big prizes. The winner will be chosen from audience reaction so be sure to bring out your friends and make sure they scream loud!

Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $8

GREASE 2 SING-ALONG @ 92YTribeca

I got stuck on a bus watching this movie once and I don't recall anyone remotely knowing the words to songs from Grease 2. But if there is any place in the workd that could breed a cult following for such a cheesy movie it would be NYC! So come on out for this entertaining sing a long!

Starts: 11 PM
Cost: $13

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)

Great Event is back and better than ever!!!

Rooftop Film presents THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN BY SHORT FILMS, performance Cymbals Eats Guitar and an Open bar after party! @ 350 Grand Street at Essex

The 13th year of Rooftop films kicks off tonight with a line up of amazing short films that will not seize to amaze! Cymbals Eats Guitar will be performing and after the screening the party will head on over to Fontana's with there will be an open bar for Radeburger beer. Should be an awesome event!

@ 350 Grand Street at Essex (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $9

Cool Screening

Brooklyn Based presents DRINKS ON THE DOC @ The Bell House

Meet Miss Gulag and other beauty queens behind bars when the Brooklyn Based film series Drinks on the Doc continues Thursday, May 14 with a prison pageant double header and $3 "Red Carpet" Stoli drinks.

Films screened tonight:
La Corona
Miss Gulag

@ The Bell House
Location: 149 7th st, Brooklyn (map)
Starts:7:30 PM
Cost: $5

Vampire Cartoon!!! WOOHOO

Screening of Atom Age of Vampire @ 92YTribeca

A stripper, a pirate and an evil scientist collide in Atom Age Vampire, the animated feature film debut by Scott Bateman (Salon.com, PlumTV). Scott has taken the actual soundtrack from the awful 1960 horror film and given it an animated makeover, along with hilarious onscreen commentary about the action (or lack thereof, as is usually the case) on this classic B-movie. Creator Scott Bateman in person for post-screening discussion.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Intersting Screening + Discussion...

FIRE UNDER THE SNOW @ 92YTribeca

Tonight come on out to 92YTribeca for this screening of Fire Under The Snow. Following the screening will be a discussion with the director od the film. Should be a great a Saturday night event!

Synopsis:
Fire Under the Snow follows a Tibetan Buddhist monk who was arrested by the Chinese communist army in 1959 and spent 33 years in prison for demonstrating peacefully and refusing to falsely denounce his teacher as a spy. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, and his teachers, friends and family displaced. Despite this, he remained unbroken, keeping the flame of his spirit ablaze.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Bergman Classic Psycho Drama

CabaretCinema Series: Persona @ Rubin Museum of Art

Written during a 9-week spell of pneumonia, Bergman's Persona is considered one of his most provocative films, exploring the symbiotic relationship between Elisabeth, an accomplished stage actress (Ullmann) who falls mute during a performance of Electra, and Sister Alma, the nurse (Andersson) hired to take care of her. As Alma confesses her most candid secrets to her silent, yet seemingly empathetic patient, she feels her very identity fusing with that of Elisabeth's, who has willed her persona as celebrity, wife and mother to her caretaker.

Liv Ullmann is a Norwegian actress, author, and film director. She has played lead roles in nine films by Ingmar Bergman, including Persona and Cries and Whispers. She lives in New York City.

@ Rubenstein Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Muppet master's film about the 60s..

JIM HENSON’S YOUTH ‘68 @ 92YTribeca

Tonight will be the first public screening of Youth ’68 since its original broadcast in 1968. This hour-long documentary comes from a time before Sesame Street and The Muppet Show made Jim Henson a household name. Here Henson juxtaposes fragments of conversations with avant-garde film motifs, creating a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation on the cusp of social, political, and cultural upheaval. Co-presented by The Jim Henson Company and The Jim Henson Legacy, in partnership with Esopus Magazine.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 pm + 9:30 PM
Cost: $12

Great Docs!!!

Scene: Brooklyn @ Galapagos Art Space

Come on out for this amazing showcase of brooklyn filmmakers:

7- 8:30 Brooklyn Currents
Three documentary films explore some of the most important issues facing Brooklyn and its residents today. From gentrification to the subprime mortgage crisis, intimate accounts from those affected shed light on the stories that put our borough in the headlines.

9 - 10:30pm: Crossing Borders
Compelling stories of survival, goodwill, and community are captured by Brooklyn filmmakers shooting in India, South Africa, and at home.

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 7 Pm
Cost: $5

Academy Award Nominated Animation...

Waltz with Bashir screening + Discussion with Art Director David Polonsky @ BAMRose

If you haven't seen this amazing animated war doc yet then here is your chance to check it out and meet David Polonsky, the art director responsible for the masterpiece!

@ BAMrose Cinemas
Location: 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brookyn (map)
Starts: 6:50 PM
Cost: $12

Hmm Interesting Option...

Shocklines Horror Film Series | SERIES 7: THE CONTENDERS @ 92YTribeca

You haven't experienced reality TV until you've witnessed Series 7: The Contenders –where the only objective is to kill the other players before they kill you. The winner is this horrifying and hilarious film, with frightening prescience of what reality television is heading towards. Starring Brooke Smith (Grey's Anatomy).

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 10 pm
Cost: $12

Interesting Film To Check out...

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED @ 92YTribeca

The Revolution Will Not be Televised charts the seven-months leading up to the attempt to overthrow Hugo Chávez in April 2002, and provides an eye-witness account of the coup d'etat and Chávez’s return to power some 48 hours later. Featuring unique footage of the divisive and polarizing political icon. Part of the series: Cinema Tropical's ¡REVOLUCIÓN! The New Latin American Left.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 pm
Cost: $12

Where is All Began!!

A Century Ago: The Film of 1908, A New generation @ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International

The Academy celebrates the year 1908 and its developmental contributions to motion pictures with a program of selected
films in a special New York presentation of A CENTURY AGO: THE FILMS OF 1908.

In 1908, three years after local storefront nickelodeons began a period of dramatic expansion, a new generation of
filmmakers that included D.W. Griffith, Émile Cohl and Max Linder were pushing “theatrical” conventions into more purely
cinematic forms. By the year’s end, however, film companies and other key industry participants had founded the Motion
Picture Patents Company, a business trust that sought to monopolize motion picture production.

This special “Monday Nights with Oscar” presentation will offer a sampling of 1908’s cinematic entertainments and artistic
achievements, including Biograph’s “After Many Years,” in which director D.W. Griffith experiments with parallel cutting and
camera movement; Vitagraph’s trick film “The Thieving Hand”; Gaumont’s sensational “Fantasmagorie,” animated by Émile
Cohl; “A Disastrous Flirtation”; and one of the earliest Italian productions “Le Farfalle” (“Butterflies”), presented from a hand-
tinted print.

Most films will be screened from 35mm prints drawn from the collections of the Academy Film Archive, the Library of
Congress, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, among others.

@ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International
Location: 111 East 59th st (map)
Starts: 7:00 PM
Cost: $5, $3 for members

Slam Poet Extroardinaire!!

SHORT SLAM #6 @ 92YTribeca

It’s a poetry slam for the screen! Show your film (10 min or less on DVD only, please) and pad the house with your friends—audience noise determines the winner. Sign-up is on a first-come basis and will begin a half hour before the screening.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Cost: $8

3rd Ward awesomeness..

Moviehouse Presents Frisky Sexy Shorts @ 3rd Ward

Tonight, Moviehouse gets frisky sexy and animated! They will be presenting three steamy animated movies by PES, Kieran O'Hare and Federico Solmi (who faces a criminal case in Italy for his film. From the Pope to tigers to furniture, if it’s feeling frisky we’re showing it. Kieran will be sharing his thoughts on all things animated after the show. Grab a date, find a lover, Spring is here at Moviehouse.

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 7:00 pm
Cost: Free

Cool event

Bike Shorts @ Galapagos Art Space

Bike Shorts is a low-key short film series where bike-minded folks share whatever they've been working on. So get out there, strap your camera to your head, and make some movies. Be original. Be creative. And you might win the $100 grand prize. The winner is determined solely on the biased opinion of the audience, so bring your friends!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $5

Interesting Movie...

Cloud Cult's NO ONE SAID IT WOULD BE EASY screens @ Cinema Purgatorio @ KGB

No One Said It Would Be Easy envelops viewers into the story and people behind Cloud Cult, the band and performance phenomenon from Minnesota. Should be cool!

@ Cinema Purgatorio
Location: 85 E. 4th Street (map)
Starts: 3 Pm
Cost: $8

Cool films..

FUSION 2009 FILM COMPETITION FINALISTS SHOWCASE @ 92YTribeca

The FUSION FILM FESTIVAL is in its sixth year of celebrating the work of women filmmakers at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. FUSION is a completely student-driven festival created to inspire and promote the next generation of women filmmakers. All films in competition are either directed by women or shot by women. Presented by New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Kanbar Institute of Film & Television’s FUSION FILM FESTIVAL.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Cost: $8

Classic Flick at the Rubin..

Cabaret Cinema Presents Mignight Express @ the Rubin Museum of Art

Tonight documentarians Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen introduce jailhouse thriller Mignight Express about a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. There will also be the discussion about the fear of wrongful imprisonment as well.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Check out the Talented Newbies...

New Filmmakers Spring Festival @Courthouse Theater at Anthology

Films films all day long! Come and check them out!

6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT SHORTS SERIES

Matt Schuman THE ONLY ONE LONELY (2007, 4 Minutes, Video)
Sally O’Grady USER (2007, 7 Minutes, Video)
Mary Adams TRAPPED (2007, 1 Minute, 35MM)
Seth Camillo CORN CRIB (2007, 2 Minutes, Video)
DW Paone CONTINUITY MALFUNCTION (2007, 2 Minutes, Video)
Adrienne Ho COMING BACK (2007, 2 Minutes, Video)
Jo Meuris PK-GRANNY (2007, 2 Minutes, Video)
Chris Flach SCELERA (3 Minutes, Video)
Jed Mowshowitz PURE GOLD – 2CU2 (2008, 1 Minute, Video)
Melissa Polin RESTLESS (2007, 3 Minutes, Video)
Kantarama Gahigiri CHECK (2007, 4 Minutes, Video)
Ian Strang PIVOT (2006, 4 Minutes, Video)
Kevin Gannon MIDPOINT (2007, 3 Minutes, 16MM)
Sara Pomerance RELAX AT HOME (2006, 4 Minutes, Video)
George Gross DUELLESS MORNING (5 Minutes, Video)
Irin Evers SWEET DREAMS (2007, 6 Minutes, Video)
Elmer Lang LUNKY BUSINESS (2006, 3 Minutes, Video)

7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Aron Epstein & Daniel Stedman THE MOTH AND THE FIREFLY (2008, 5 Minutes, Video)
Joselito Seldera HANDS OFF (2008, 6 Minutes, Video)
Frederick Trevino THE NEW POSITION (2008, 21 Minutes, Video)
Alex Stockman EVA RESTA AU PLACARD (2006, 29 Minutes, 16MM)

8:30PM FIRST NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Alexander Berenbeim and Anthony Rocco AN ENDGAME (2008, 81 Minutes, Video)

@Courthouse Theater at Anthology
Location: 32 Second Avenue (map)
Starts: 6 PM
cost: ???

Great new Paul Dano movie..

Sneak Peek | GIGANTIC with PAUL DANO @ 92YTribeca

Come on out for a sneak peek at the new film Gigantic, a NY romance starring Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) and indie princess Zooey Deschanel. Screening followed by discussion with director Matt Aselton, star Paul Dano and columnist Steve Ramos. Co-presented by indieWIRE.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 pm
Cost: $12

Interesting Screening...

Work-In-Progress Screening: Changing Face of Harlem by Shawn Batey @ Third World Newsreel

TWN Production Workshop alumna, Shawn Batey presents a one-hour documentary that reviews development in Harlem over the last twenty years and ponders the future of the community. From the voices of residents, business owners, politicians, developers and clergy, this documentary reveals feelings of betrayal and hope, deferred dreams, and struggles of a neighborhood. The film illustrates how, in the years of the 1980s and 1990s, the New York City government along with non-profit faith based organizations saved and revamped the abandoned vacant housing stock that became synonymous with Harlem.

@ Third World News Reel
Location: 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Flr (map)
Starts: 6:30 Pm
Cost: Free, RSVP REQUIRED!!!

Free screening!

Seven @ the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Forum Gallery

Seven is a documentary play about women who have fought through enormous personal battles (rape in Pakistan, the sex trade in Cambodia, domestic abuse in Russia) for the good of not only themselves but other women like them in their own countries and abroad. The play was a collaboration between seven playwrights and the seven women on whom the story is based. All those women will speak on a panel tonight after the performance.

@ NYU Skirball Center of Performing Arts
Location: 566 LaGuardia Pl (map)
Starts: 6 PM- 8 PM
Cost: Free w/ RSVP

Interesting Screening...

Work-In-Progress Screening: White: A Study in Color by Joel Katz @ Third World Newsreel

Please join TWN Board member Joel Katz (director of Strange Fruit, 2002) for a documentary/essay about what it means to be white in America. Both a personal memoir and a sociological study, White: A Study in Color will put the notion of "post-racial" America under a critical lens. From the Obama ascendancy to the predictions of population demographers that by the year 2042 whites will become America's largest minority, the very notion of being white is ripe for scrutiny. Where has 'white' come from, and where is it going?

@ Third World News Reel
Location: 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Flr (map)
Starts: 6:30 Pm
Cost: Free

Awesome Documentary about The Gorillaz!

Bananaz Film Screening and Q&A with director Ceri Levy @ Apple Store, Soho

Bananaz takes down the virtual walls of Gorillaz in an intimate, honest and often hilarious account of the working relationship between Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett and their extraordinary creative process.

If you happen to be in New York, there's a special in-store screening of the film on Tuesday 24th March at 6.30pm at the Soho Apple Store, where film-maker Ceri Levy will be present for a Q&A after the screening.

Definitely worth checking out!

@ Apple Store SOHO
Location: 103 Prince Street (map)
Starts: 6:30 PM
Cost: FREE

Visionary Director Speaks...

The Tree of Life in the Wheel of Becoming A Discussion with Darren Aronofsky @ Rubin Museum of Art

Film director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler) re-examines the quest for eternal life initially explored in his film The Fountain. Is man's yearning for eternal youth genetically predetermined? Is the longing for everlasting life part of our survival instinct? Or is the quest one our minds fabricate to insulate us against the fear of dying? He is in conversation with Patrick Grim, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook, who works in logic, philosophy of mind, computer modeling, ethics and metaphysics.

Should be an interesting discussion!

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 7:00 PM
Cost: $20

Interesting Film To Check out...

Screening of Begging Naked @ The Cell Theater

Here is a great movie that is not to be missed!

Begging Naked was shot over a 10 year period and shows how the dramatic changes in NYC's Times Square devastated the life of the main character Elise .

Begging Naked began when Elise Hill asked fellow artist Karen Gehres to record her life on videotape. With straightforward honesty, Elise recounts how at age 15 she left an abusive home and wound up on the streets of New York as a prostitute, stripper and drug addict. Her sense of humor and striking face just barely conceal her pain. Years later she entered rehab and started selling her art, but soon returned to stripping, recreating graphic images from the clubs she worked in. But Mayor Giulianis zoning laws put the squeeze on the sex industry in New York, and the film follows Elise as she wrestles with her uncertain fate. Drug abuse, isolation, mental illness, and eviction complicate her journey. This inspiring and heartbreaking film transcends its grim subject, gracefully creating an intimate portrait of a fascinating individual struggling to survive in a city that would prefer she didn't exist.

@ The Cell Theater
Location: 338 West 23rd St (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $10

Classic Film w/ discussion

Screening of Midnight Cowboy followed by discussion with cast & crew @ Director's Guild of America

Tonight there will be a screening of the print of Midnight Cowboy from Academy's Film Archive. Watch this classic film in a quality that has truly never been seen before. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the Cast and Crew of the Academy Award winning movie.

@ Directors Guild of America
Location: 110 W. 57th St (map)
Starts: 12 PM
Cost: $5 For Public, $3 for members and students w/ ID

Great music and a screening for free!!

Rooftop Films Presents Woodpecker With Musical Guest Mountains @ Chelsea Market

Here is a FREE event at the Chelsea Market which includes a live performance of Mountains, Free Radeburger beer and screening of the film Woodpecker.
Woodpecker- Fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding the celebrated Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Declared extinct in the 1940's, the bird has apparently been spotted by numerous experts. Enter amateur birder and poet Johnny Neander, who has convinced his taciturn sidekick that he will be the one to find the elusive woodpecker. The ensuing chaos divides the small town between believers and non-believers, rabid environmentalists and opportunistic entrepreneurs. Much like the bird itself, Woodpecker explores the intersection of fact and fiction, manipulating our notions of documentary and narrative techniques within a tragic comedy about hope, perception, and some very, very strange birds.

@Chelsea Market
Location: 75 9th Ave (map)
Starts: 7pm
Cost: Free

3rd Ward awesomeness..

Moviehouse @ 3rd Ward

Tonight, Moviehouse Mixes it up! Existing footage is dissected, edited and altered into something new and never seen. Created in collaboration with guest curator, Blanca De La Torre, the show features the unreal animation of Rob Carter and the amazing appropriated videos of Christoph Draeger. Then(!) wrap up your weekend and the Bushwick SITE performance festival with an AFTER PARTY! Festival goers, Moviehouse lovers and Sunday blues busters are invited to dance the night away to the video rhythms of VJ Clay Franklin. Featuring a very special live video performance by Elena Demyanenko and Itsiar Barrio, drinks and eats." Film and event info after the jump.

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 7:00 pm
Cost: Free

Indie Flick To See...

Frozen River @ The Quad

Here is a great little movie that will probably be worth checking out. Especially after Melissa Leo's nomination for best actress at the oscars. Be sure to check it out!

@ The Quad
Location: 34 W 13th S (map)
Starts:1:00 3:00 5:10 7:10 9:15
Cost: $12

Indie Flick To See...

Frozen River @ The Quad

Here is a great little movie that will probably be worth checking out. Especially after Melissa Leo's nomination for best actress at the oscars. Be sure to check it out!

@ The Quad
Location: 34 W 13th S (map)
Starts:1:00 3:00 5:10 7:10 9:15
Cost: $12

Indie Flick To See...

Frozen River @ The Quad

Here is a great little movie that will probably be worth checking out. Especially after Melissa Leo's nomination for best actress at the oscars. Be sure to check it out!

@ The Quad
Location: 34 W 13th S (map)
Starts:1:00 3:00 5:10 7:10 9:15
Cost: $12

Great Show, Watch It with a crowd!

LOST: A VIEWING PARTY @ The Bell House

Come on out to this live screening of LOST on the giant screen. The night will also include 2 for 1 happy hour until 7pm, $2 Rum Punch before 8pm, and Dharma Snacks. It should definitely be better than watching in at home alone.

@ The Bell House
Location: 149 7th st, Brooklyn (map)
Starts: 7 Pm
Cost: FREE

My Film is getting screened at this!!!

Love Actually Screening @ The Oval Film Center

Here is a great film screening of great up and coming directors short films that embody different types of Love! It should be a great event and my film Lost In Lexicon will be getting screened! So be sure to come out!

Refreshments from 5:00p-5:30pm
Film start at 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Meet the Filmmakers 6:45-7:15pm
Post Reception to follow

@ The Oval Film Center
Location: 12 Stuyvesant Oval (map)
Starts: 5 PM
Cost: TBA

Interesting Documentary + Performance

Emmanuel Jal's War Child Screening and performance @ Faison Firehouse Theater

Emmanuel Jal is the author of War Child. Jal. The book published by St. Martin’s Press and distributed by Barnes & Noble will be launched during Black History Month. Jal whose own childhood was robbed from him, aims to protect the childhood of others through music. "Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission." According to Jal, in times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, the only way to survive the daily tragedy in Sudan is to allow the inner-soul to be uplifted through music, which is like soul food to heal pain. Through his heartfelt lyrics, he opens the world up to the corruption and greed of the Sudanese government; central to the themes of his songs is the campaign for peace of opposing sides in Sudan and the clear message that children have no place in wars. The youth of the world might feel like War Children; however, awareness of the problem starts dialogue towards a solution.

@ Faison Firehouse Theater
Location: 6 Hancock Place (map)
Starts: 6:30 pm
Cost: $35

coool beans...

Two Minute Two Year Anniversary Madness at 3rd Ward @ 3rd Ward

Moviehouse is turning 2! And to celebrate we challenged filmmakers to make 2-minute shorts following a few special rules: each movie is a sequel (although not necessarily to a real film), has only two characters and takes place on a Tuesday.

Featuring the work of Clay Franklin & Molly MaGuire, Rocky Mills & Arielle Fenton, Will Carlough, Casimir Nowitski, Manuela Viera-Gallo, Graham Meriwether, Victor Jeffreys, II & CK Sweat, Leat Klingman, Chioke Nassor and many many more!

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 7:00 pm
Cost: Free

Gotta Check It Out...

Coraline @ Various Locations

Is anybody else just as excited about this movie as me? I mean it's the dude that did Nightmare Before Christmas!(not Tim Burton, the other guy) But it looks pretty damn trippy, so it should be a blast and a half in theater definitely the movie to see this weekend.

Check Listings for times and places.. HERE

Movie to check out!!

Coraline @ Various Locations

Is anybody else just as excited about this movie as me? I mean it's the dude that did Nightmare Before Christmas!(not Tim Burton, the other guy) But it looks pretty damn trippy, so it should be a blast and a half in theater definitely the movie to see this weekend.

Check Listings for times and places.. HERE

Should be an interesting Movie..

Crips and Bloods: Made In America @ The IFC Center

Made In America is a close-up, human look at the organizations that have come to represent gang life worldwide: the Crips and Bloods of South LA. Stacy Peralta, who made the surf documentary Riding Giants, talks to current and ex- members about the four-decade-long conflict, allowing for them to explain the history, how and why things stand as they do now, and how it all might finally end.

@ The IFC Center
Location: 323 6th Ave (map)
Starts:11.05a, 1.05p, 3.05p, 5.25p, 7.45p, 10.05p
Cost: $12

Cool Shorts

Bike Shorts @ Galapagos Art Space

Bike Shorts is a low-key short film series where bike-minded folks share whatever they've been working on. So get out there, strap your camera to your head, and make some movies. Be original. Be creative. And you might win the $100 grand prize. The winner is determined solely on the biased opinion of the audience, so bring your friends!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $5

Getting to know the townies..

Rooftop Films and B-Side present: Crawford @ Chelsea Market

Come and say a final farewell to W. tonight at the Chelsea market! There will be a screening of CRAWFORD, an extraordinary documentary by first-time filmmaker David Modigliani, who provides a unique perspective on the Bush presidency: through the eyes of the 705 residents of Crawford, Texas.

There will also be music by Matteah Baim before the film, and free Radeburger beer during the screening

Also B-Side Entertainment is proud to announce a nationwide grassroots exhibition program for this exceptional film called - "Host Your Own Farewell to W. - CRAWFORD's 50-State Screening Party

Pretty great stuff! And it's FREE!

@Chelsea Market
Location: 75 9th Ave (map)
Starts: 7pm
Cost: Free

The Cream of the Crop 2008...

Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund presents Docs on the Shortlist @ Tribeca Cinemas

Here is a two event featuring screenings of all the best documentary of the year before the academy decides the nominees. Today At the Death House Door, The Garden, I.O.U.S.A.and They Killed Sister Dorothy are the selections. After each film screens, a past Oscar Best Doc nominee will sit down with the filmmaker for a Q&A. Should be a great event

3pm- At the Death House Door
5pm- They Killed Sister Dorothy
7pm- The Garden
9pm- I.O.U.S.A.

More info: HERE

@Tribeca Cinemas
Location: 54 Varick St (map)
Starts: 3, 5, 7, & 9 p.m.
Cost: $8 for each screening

Great night screening..

Labyrinth Sing-Along @ 92YTribeca

Classic childhood movie with David Bowie and muppets! How can you go wrong? Come on out and sing your heat with Bowie and his strange little creatures.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost:tba

The Cream of the Crop 2008...

Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund presents Docs on the Shortlist @ Tribeca Cinemas

Here is a two event featuring screenings of all the best documentary of the year before the academy decides the nominees. Tonight, Man on Wire and Pray The Devil Back To Hell are the selections. Man on Wire, the fascinating story of a French tightrope walker's stealth mission to perform on a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, is as engaging as everyone says. It's surprisingly confounding as well. Hearing James Marsh, the director, talk about his subject in person will be excellent. After each film screens, a past Oscar Best Doc nominee will sit down with the filmmaker for a Q&A.

Man on Wire screens at 6p tonight, and Pray The Devil Back to Hell is at 8p.

@Tribeca Cinemas
Location: 54 Varick St (map)
Starts: 6 Pm & 8 PM
Cost: $8 for each screening

Great Screening..

Special Screening: July War @ Anthology Film Archives

With Filmmakers Brandon Jourdan and Francisca Caporali. July War takes a raw and unflinching look at the devastating first-hand effects of the 2006 Israeli military offensive in Lebanon. This powerful documentary examines the broader impact of the global war on terrorism, using the war in Lebanon as a specific case study, and questions whether it has actually curbed, or perhaps increased, Islamic militancy. It also reflects on the US and Iranian role in the war and the failures of current policy in the Middle East by Western governments and their allies.

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts:8 PM
Cost: $5-$10 sliding scale admission

Classic Screening..

The Thief of Baghdad @ The Academy Theater

Comes and see this classic film with Douglas Fairbanks. Special guests will be Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta who wrote Fairbank's biography.

@ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International
Location: 111 East 59th st (map)
Starts: 7:00 PM
Cost: $5, $3 for members

What is the Worlds obsession with Wolphins?

Rooftop Films presents Short Films from Wholphin! @ Chelsea market

Rooftop Films returns to the halls of Chelsea market for a free screening of short films from the Wholphin collection. Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine from McSweeney's, lovingly encoded with the best short movies, documentaries and uncategorizable films — from rare Spike Jonze documentaries to Alexander Payne's first short feature; from documentaries about squirrel racism to animated shorts about space travel and short-haired women. If it's good, rare, new or unseen, it's on Wholphin. There will also be a live performance by Love Like Deloreans before the screening and free beer through out the show!

@Chelsea Market
Location: 75 9th Ave (map)
Starts: 7pm
Cost: Free

AMAZING PARTY AND SHORT FILMS....

Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective Presents Love and Lust A Short Film Party @ Glassland Gallery 9/4

Here is a phenomenal night of short films from Brooklyn based filmmakers about Love/Lust and Brooklyn! There will also be a DJ and great drink deals!

Films will cover: Thwarted love. Masochistic sadists. Tiger sex. Lusty bikers. Homeless Polish alcoholics in love. This is only a taste of what you’ll get when you challenge 20 independent filmmakers to make two-minute films about LOVE and LUST in Brooklyn! It's going to be a great event!

@Glasslands
Location: 289 Kent Ave (map)
Starts: 9 PM
Cost: $7 RSVP HERE

Sunday Flicks...

GIGANTIC (A TALE OF TWO JOHNS) @ 92YTribeca

Join John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants for a comprehensive look at the Grammy-winning musical duo's 20-year history, told through performance, animation, videos, and hilarious commentaries from (famous) friends and fans. Followed by a Q&A. Director: A.J. Schnack.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $12

The Hell is a Wholphin???

WHOLPHIN NO. 7 and BEST OF WHOLPHIN VOL. 1 @ 92YTribeca

Come see a selection of the latest finds from the people who brought you Dennis Hopper blowing himself up with 23 sticks of dynamite, surreal dating with prince-of-awkward Michael Cera, the world’s most illegal game of trans-border volleyball, squid birth, and more.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 5 PM
Cost: $12

Great movie along with a little spiked Punch

Meatballs @ 92YTribeca

Enjoy this cult classic starring Bill Murray as a prankster camp counselor while indulging in camp eats like s’mores and spiked bug juice. Sounds like an awesome friday!

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 9 PM
Cost: $10

Great Collection of Short Films..

New Yorker Films presents: The World According to Shorts @ Galapagos Art Space

Brought to North America by curator Jonathan Howell this 'film festival in miniature' allows U.S. audiences to get a taste of up-and-coming, innovative directors from across the globe. Come early to partake in Buy one get one happy hour (5-9 pm)!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts:10 Pm
Cost: $7

Classic Flick at the Rubin..

Rashomon @ Rubin Museum of Art

Tonight will be a screening of a new restoration of this classic film that has never been seen before. Definitely a must see for any fan of the genre this movie started!

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:$5 general, $3 members

Night at the Movies..

Screening of Local Hero with Q & A @ 92YTribeca

Come on out for a special screening on this film’s 25th anniversary, complete with a scotch tasting (mmm). Q&A with star Peter Riegert at 5 pm screening and introduction at 7:30 screening. Director: Bill Forsyth. 1983. 111 min.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 5 PM
Cost: $12

Short film excellence..

Daggers: The Short Festival of Short Horror @ Pioneer Theater

Two jam packed nights of gory short films. How can you go wrong?

More info: Daggers

@ Pioneer Theater
Location: 155 E. Third Street(map)
Starts: 9 PM
Cost: $10 (6.50 for students)

Short film excellence..

Daggers: The Short Festival of Short Horror @ Pioneer Theater

Two jam packed nights of gory short films. How can you go wrong?

More info: Daggers

@ Pioneer Theater
Location: 155 E. Third Street(map)
Starts: 9 PM
Cost: $10 (6.50 for students)

Check out some great films shot in HD..

HDFest NYC @ Sony Wonder Technology Lab

Be sure to come out three phenomenal days of HD shot films that will be getting screened. There will be feature Documentaries, narrative shorts and much much more. Be sure to check it out!

More info:
http://www.hdfest.com/hdfestnyc.html

@ Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Location: 56th Street and Madison Avenue (map)
Starts: 5:15 PM
Cost: $10

Check out some great films shot in HD..

HDFest NYC @ Sony Wonder Technology Lab

Be sure to come out three phenomenal days of HD shot films that will be getting screened. There will be feature Documentaries, narrative shorts and much much more. Be sure to check it out!

More info:
http://www.hdfest.com/hdfestnyc.html

@ Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Location: 56th Street and Madison Avenue (map)
Starts: 5:15 PM
Cost: $10

Booze and a Flick

Cabaret Cinemas Presents THE STORY OF QIU JU @ Rubin Museum of Art

Come and check out the winner of Best Picture and Best Actress at the 1992 Venice Film Festival, this dramatic comedy tells the plight of a pregnant peasant woman who is forced to battle a complacent and convoluted Chinese bureaucracy after her husband is humiliated by the village chief. Directed by internationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Films about Bikes...

Bike Shorts 7 @ Solar One

"Tonight, Manhattan alt-energy axis Solar One hosts the seventh go-around of Bike Shorts. Planted alongside the whirligig that is FDR Drive, the environmental venue is the perfect oasis-in-the-desert to lure the ten-speeds and fixed-gears over bridges for the first time (the previous six powwows went down in Brooklyn). With its call to cameras, the series offers cycle-centered moving pictures that are made by riders and voted on, with appropriate egalitarianism, by an enthusiastic audience. Come to kvetch about automotive etiquette or to take a picturesque water break by the East River."

@ Solar One
Location: 2420 FDR Dr (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: Free

Bad Ass Premiere!!

"The Boned Age" DVD premiere party @ Santos Party House

Grenade Gloves, one of the fastest-growing names in action sports, will unveil its new snowboarding film, "The Boned Age," at Santos Party House.

"The Boned Age includes plenty of wipeouts, skits, and the freshest tricks in all aspects of the sport from Magoon creating new rail combinations to EJT–Experimental Jump Technologies," says two-time Olympic silver medalist and Grenade Gloves president Danny Kass. Joining Kass in the all-star cast are Scotty Lago, Benji Ritchie, Gabe Taylor, Kyle Clancy, Lucas Magoon, Travis Rice, The Dingo and Dave England of MTV's Jackass. Expect a wild night of killer tunes, killer video (screening starts promptly at 11pm) and loads of special guests in the house!

@ Santos Party House
Location: 101 lafayette street (map)
Starts: 10 Pm
Cost: $5

Check it out!

Coney Island Film Festival @ Sideshows By The Seashore and The Coney Island Museum

Fall is time for festival and this is definitely an excellent one to check out. It's three days jam packed with some stellar indie flicks worth checking out. So check out the schedule and try to make it out!

Schedule: HERE

@ Side Shows By The Sea
Location: 3006 W. 12th St. (map)

@The Coney Island Museum
Location: 1208 Surf Ave (map)

Starts: Fri- 7:30 PM
Sat- 12 PM
Sun- 12 PM
Cost:

SPECIAL FESTIVAL PASSES

Full Pass: Includes opening night party and all screenings (Warriors not included), $45
Saturday Pass: Includes all Saturday Screenings (Warriors not included), $15
Sunday Pass: Includes all Sunday Screenings $10

INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS

Click program links below, $6

The Warriors Special Screening, $10

So many festivals!!

Coney Island Film Festival @ Sideshows By The Seashore and The Coney Island Museum

Fall is time for festival and this is definitely an excellent one to check out. It's three days jam packed with some stellar indie flicks worth checking out. So check out the schedule and try to make it out!

Schedule: HERE

@ Side Shows By The Sea
Location: 3006 W. 12th St. (map)

@The Coney Island Museum
Location: 1208 Surf Ave (map)

Starts: Fri- 7:30 PM
Sat- 12 PM
Sun- 12 PM
Cost:

SPECIAL FESTIVAL PASSES

Full Pass: Includes opening night party and all screenings (Warriors not included), $45
Saturday Pass: Includes all Saturday Screenings (Warriors not included), $15
Sunday Pass: Includes all Sunday Screenings $10

INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS

Click program links below, $6

The Warriors Special Screening, $10

Great Short Film Fest...

TropFest 2008 NY@ World Financial Center Plaza

Come at check out this star studded night of film which will feature the premiere 16 great short films. VIP judges like Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, and Malcolm Gladwell will choose the night’s best films. The winning film will receive a $20,000 Best Filmmaker Award, sponsored by Citi. Winners of Best Male Actor and Best Female Actor prizes will receive a $1,000 cash prize sponsored by Nicole Kidman. There will also be music by live DJs and Tamarama Band. It should be a great event! Be sure to check it out.

@ World Financial Center Plaza
Location: 200 Vesey Street (map)
Starts: 6 PM
Cost: Free

Drinks and Flicks....

Big Night @ Rubin Museum of Art

Acclaimed pastry chef Jehangir Mehta introduces award-winning motion picture, Big Night. Starring Minnie Driver and Isabella Rossellini, the film tells the story of two Italian brothers on the brink of bankruptcy, who risk everything on a feast that could make or break their restaurant. Directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

So many festivals!!

Coney Island Film Festival @ Sideshows By The Seashore and The Coney Island Museum

Fall is time for festival and this is definitely an excellent one to check out. It's three days jam packed with some stellar indie flicks worth checking out. So check out the schedule and try to make it out!

Schedule: HERE

@ Side Shows By The Sea
Location: 3006 W. 12th St. (map)

@The Coney Island Museum
Location: 1208 Surf Ave (map)

Starts: Fri- 7:30 PM
Sat- 12 PM
Sun- 12 PM
Cost:

SPECIAL FESTIVAL PASSES

Full Pass: Includes opening night party and all screenings (Warriors not included), $45
Saturday Pass: Includes all Saturday Screenings (Warriors not included), $15
Sunday Pass: Includes all Sunday Screenings $10

INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS

Click program links below, $6

The Warriors Special Screening, $10

Free screening!

Film Screening: Twilight Becomes Night w/ filmmaker Virginie Perette @ McNally Jackson

Independent filmmaker Virginie Perette reveals the role that neighborhood stores play in our individual lives and in our neighborhoods, examines the issues that threaten them (large chains, public policy, and high rents, among others), and demonstrates the importance of community activism and individual commitment in preserving these stores. The night will include a screening and a discussion of local businesses with the filmmaker.

@McNally Jackson
Location: 52 Prince Street (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: Free

Flicks and Tunes...

Rooftop Films Present October Country w/ a performance by Phosphorescent

Here is a great night of entertainment including a live performance by Brooklyn's own Phosphorescent, followed by a screening of a the beautifully shot movie October Country and an open bar at Fontana's to follow the screening! I would say it is the best $9 you will ever spend.

@350 Grand Street (map)
Starts: 8:30 PM
Cost: $9

Great Indie Cinema...

Moviehouse: NYC's Best Short Films @ 3rd Ward

Every 2nd Sunday Moviehouse will be bringing this stellar screening of the best NYC short films out right now! This week Moviehouse will screen Matthew Lessner's Darling Darling, starring our favorite awkward teen from Juno and Arrested Development, Michael Cera, Astronauts Visit New York by Joanne Getson and Carmen by Leat Klingman, Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev, and Claudia La Rocco. This will be a night of cinematic oddities, as well as free popcorn and a VJ to follow the screening!

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 7:00 pm
Cost: Free

Intriguing premiere...

Film Premiere Daughters of Wisdom @ Rubin Museum of Art

Filmed in the Eastern Tibetan plateau north of the Himalayas in a land where little has changed over the past 2,000 years, Daughters of Wisdom is an intimate portrait of the nuns of Kala Rongo Monastery in Nangchen, Kham and a view of contemporary Tibet through the eyes of some of the country’s most extraordinary women.

Check out this amazing screening tonight at the Rubin Museum of Art

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $15, includes post-screening reception and Q&A with the filmmaker

Final Screening in the Pool!

Rushmore @ McCarren Pool

Here is a free viewing not to pass up! Tonight at the McCarren Pool Wes Anderson's Rushmore will be getting shown with an introduction by Kent Jones of the Lincoln film archives. The King Left will be performing before the film which should be awesome! So come on out with your blankets and get ready for that quarky Wes Anderson style! This is possibly the last Summer Series screening ever, so be sure to come out!

@ McCarren Park Pool
Lorimer St btwn Bayard St & Driggs Ave, Greenpoint (map)
Time: 8- 8:30 PM
Cost: Free

Check it out!

Bushwick Film Festival @ The Lumehouse

If you haven't been able to check out any of the other screenings this weekend this is your last chance to get a talent of the talent coming out of the depths of the Brooklyn film scene right now. Definitely be sure to get their for the New York Premiere of Like a Dog Without a Jaw, the new movie for up and coming film Steven Quinlan that should be pretty great. It is a not miss event for any lovers of film.

@ The Lumehouse
Location: 47 Beaver Street (map)
Starts: 7 PM

Cinematic Trip Around The World....

Cabaret Cinema Presents Baraka @ Rubin Museum of Art

World traveller and author, Patricia Schultz, introduces the visually stunning cinematic meditation, Baraka. Beginning in the Himalayas, Baraka was shot in twenty-four countries on six continents documenting religious rituals, natural phenomenas, and humankind's destructive powers on our planet. So get a martini, sit back and enjoy the journey.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Movie and a Cocktail...

CabaretCinema Presents Gandahar with Introduction by filmmaker and animator Signe Baumane @ Rubin Museum of Art

The night will include a screening of this off the wall 80s French animation about a Utopian planet called Gandahar which is terrorized when a mysterious evil force invades its idyllic serenity, turning people into stone with petrifying rays.

The film will be introduce by Latvian Animator Signe Baumane whos own works have made it in to both Sundance and Berlin film festivals. There will drinks for sale so be sure to watch the movie while sipping on a Martini!

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Politically charged screening..

The Candidate @ Bryant Park

Tonight at screening at Bryant Park will be The Candidate which won for best screenwriting in the 1973 oscars. The film stars Robert Redford and it's about Eugene McCarthy's 1968 democratic campaign. So come watch this movie out in the summer night out on the green it will be great.

Classy Home Video...

Hollywood Home Videos @ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International

Here is a night of rarely seen clips of hollywood celebrities from shot during their regular day lives. Alot of the footage has never been seen before so this will most definitely be a treat for any fan of the silver screen. There will be some special guests to shine the light on the home videos including Stephen Bogart (Humphrey Bogart's son), Vera Fairbanks and Steve McQueen's daughter Neile Adams-McQueen.As a bonus they will also be showing a rare glimpse in to early NYC harbor with footage from a parade as well as time square.

@ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International
Location: 111 East 59th st (map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: $5

BRAZIL! BRAZIL!!....

CineFest Brasil: Out of Tune, directed by Walter Lima Jr. and a performance by Maria Rita @ Central Park Summerstage

Out Of Tune is about a group of friends who come of age during the political turmoil that plagued South America in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band - Os Desafinados - and become a part of the groundbreaking Brazilian musical movement (called Bossa Nova) that launched the careers of such music greats as Tom Jobim and João Gilberto.

The daughter of Brazilian musical legends César Camargo Mariano and Elis Regina, Maria Rita has developed her own jazzy vocal style modeled on such classic singers as Ella Fitzgerald. Her first album Maria Rita went platinum in 2003 and made her an international star in her own right.

@Central Park SummerStage (map)
Starts at: 3:00 PM- 7:00 Pm
Cost: FREE!

Movie and some tunes..

Rooftop Films Presents I'll come Running and Live Performance by Bell

Tonight come check out rooftop films screening of I'll Come Running which is an awkward, comic, sexy one night stand turns substantial, then life-changing, in this dizzying mix of romantic comedy and drama. Sounds pretty damn good. Also Bell will be performing live so all in all an awesome night.

@ The Old American Can Factory
Location: 232 Third Street (map)
Starts: 8:30 PM
Cost: $9

ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!!!

28 Days Later @ McCarren Pool

Here is a free viewing not to pass up! Tonight at the McCarren Pool Daniel Boyles horrifying zombie flick 28 Days Later will be screening. So come on out with your blankets and get ready to get the living Sh*T scared out of you!

@ McCarren Park Pool
Lorimer St btwn Bayard St & Driggs Ave, Greenpoint (map)
Time: 8- 8:30 PM
Cost: Free

Celebrate A Kinky Anniversary..

Cinekink's Tawdry Summer Tryst @ The Red Room

CineKinks will celebrating their fifth anniversary tonight at the Red Room and will be mixing it up a bit by revisiting with a few of the classic favorites cinekinks film collection including:

TEAT BEAT OF SEX
SALT
HIGHWAY AMAZON
IN YER ROOM
THE PARTY
HIGH INFIDELITY

and

THE GOOD GIRL!!

Cocktails will follow the screening, downstairs at KGB Bar.

@ The Red Room at KGB Bar
Location: 85 E. 4th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10, seniors/students $8; 18+ only (BUY NOW)

New Space and Free Flick...

The Candidate @ The New Galapagos Art Space

Tonight begins the monthly political film screening and discussion at the brand spanking new Galapagos art space in DUMBO, Brooklyn. They will be screening, The Candidate which won for best screenwriting in the 1973 oscars. The film stars Robert Redford and it's about Eugene McCarthy's 1968 democratic campaign. All you need to do is RSVP below and you can take part in this free film discussion.

@ New Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 7 Pm
Cost: Free w/ RSVP

Herzog's Notion of Paradise

CabaretCinema, What Price Paradise?: STROSZEK @ Rubin Museum of Art

What Price Paradise? is a series of movies put on by the Rubin Museum of Art that tackles different filmmakers notion of paradise. Tonight they will be screening Werner Herzog's cult classic Stroszek. The follows a Berlin street musician--recently released from prison as he moves to Wisconsin with a prostitute and an elderly man in search of the American dream. Definitely a movie to check out!

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Flicks and Tunes...

Rooftop Films Feauturing INDUSTRIANCE: The Livelong Day with a performance by Pwrfl Power @ The Roof of The Old American Can Factory

Nothing like a night on the rooftop with a bunch of short films about the weirder side of work. Dancing dock hands, desperate CEOs, out-of-control operating system salesmen and radioactive chicken. Along with a killer performance by Japan's pwrfl power all for one easy price! It's an amazing experience that you have to check out!

@ The Old American Can Factory
Location: 232 Third Street (map)
Starts: 8:30 PM
Cost: $9

Free Movie at McCarren Park

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides, which screens tonight at McCarren Park Pool, is about five sisters whose isolated home life and overprotective parents lead them to a ghastly end. Starring Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, and Josh Hartnett, The Virgin Suicides scored Coppola a couple of awards and a devoted following of young fans, and she even met the father of her child (Thomas Mars of Phoenix) while working on the film’s soundtrack.

@ McCarren Park Pool
Lorimer Street btwn Driggs & Bayard Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Map)

8pm
Free

Free Flix at the Pool....

The Virgin Suicides @ McCarren Pool

Here is a free viewing not to pass up! Tonight at the McCarren Pool Sophie Coppola's phenomenal first movie will be shown. So come on out with your blankets and picnic take in this glorious movie under the summer stars!

@ McCarren Park Pool
Lorimer St btwn Bayard St & Driggs Ave, Greenpoint (map)
Time: 8- 8:30 PM
Cost: Free

Free Movie at Bryant Park

"Fail-Safe"

Ever wonder what would happen if another country accidentally initiated an atomic war with the United States, and it was up to Henry Fonda to make it all better? See what happens--for free--on the picturesque lawn of Bryant Park. Bring a date, a blanket and a bit of patience (you'll have to arrive around 5pm to get a choice lawn spot for the 8pm film.)

@ Bryant Park (Map)

No Excuse Not to Go to This Movie...

Wet Hot American Summer
Come watch this incredible cult classic film kick off L Magazine’s Summer Screen Series at McCarren Pool. The film is a hysterical satire of 1980’s summer camp,including such stars as Michael Showalter, Christopher Meloni, Marguerite Moreau, and Paul Rudd. Free.
@ McCarren Park Pool – Lorimer St. & Bayard St. MAP
9:00 pm Tuesday, July 8th

Once again... Paul Newman is the Man

Film in Bryant Park
Come to the free outdoor showing of Hud, an Oscar winning black and white classic featuring Paul Newman, on Bryant Park’s massive outdoor projector screen tonight. FREE
When: Monday, Jul 7, 5:00pm – 8:30pm
Where: Bryant Park, Fifth Ave. and 40th St.

Opening of the New Film Exhibit at MoMA

Salvador Dali Films at MoMA
Be one of the first to see the new Dali film exhibit opening today, feauturing several legendary silent comedians, most notably Buster Keaton, in a number of films including, The General, Home Movie, and Sherlock, all of which inspired Dali’s surrealistic aesthetic and increased his commitment to cinema.
Time: 6:00 pm Monday, July 7th
Location: Museum of Modern Art - 11 W 53rd St

Film Premiere Party

The Gits Movie Premier Party
Tonight come to The Delancey to celebrate the unveiling of this amazing documentary, which focuses on the influential Seattle based band The Gits, whose future was cut short with the tragic rape and murder of singer Mia Zapata, fifteen years ago today. Joining the party will be special guests Kathleen Hanna, Allison Wolfe and RRRIOT, as well as DJ Dario Speedwagon and many more…
Where: The Delancey
When: 9:00 pm Monday, July 7th

Awesome Festival

Afro-Punk Film Music Festival
Come to the opening of this extraordinary festival, which features films that represent black rebellion and change, including Panther in Africa, The Federation of Black Cowboys, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, Tales of Dr. Funkenstein, and many more. FREE.
When: 1:00 pm – 11:00 pm Friday, July 4th
Location: The Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Start of a Sick Movie Festival...

Festival of New Japanese Film
Come to the opening day of the biggest contemporary Japanese film festival in North America, Japan Cuts, with a wide range of films all underscoring the restless desire of Japan to determine its post-Hello Kitty future.
Location: Japan Society – 333 East 47th Street
Time: Spanning from July 2nd - July 13th, click here for the schedule.

Paul Newman is the Man.

Come See HUD
Watch this Oscar winning drama, featuring Paul Newman, about cattle disease, rape, and much more, in black and white on Bryant Park’s massive outdoor projector screen tonight. FREE
When: Monday June 30 (5pm)
Where: Bryant Park, Ave of the Americas @ W 40th St

Awesome Short Films...

Surreal Shorts
Come to this awesome event tonight, where you can hear live music outdoors followed by a series of amazing short films, as well as a performance by pianist Bruce Levingston inspired by MOMA’s Dali: Painting and Film exhibition.
Time: 8:00 pm Friday, June 27th
Location: Open Road Rooftop – 350 Grand Street

Awesome Film Discussion...

Tatsuya Nakadai

Tatsuya Nakadai is a legendary leading man in a number of epic Japanese films, including Yojimbo and The Human Condition. Last year, he received the title of bunka korosha from the Japanese government at the age of 76, for his excellent contribution to national culture. Tonight, he will appear to hold a discussion with Michael Jeck, a Japanese films specialist. Don’t miss out…
Where: Film Forum - 209 W Houston St
When:8:20 pm Tuesday, June 24
A limited number of tickets available at the door…

Awesome Films...

1969 Experimental Films
Tonight's experimental bill offers a glimpse of film's creative frontier at a particularly exploratory moment in history. Some works shun technical conventions and others dispense with narrative, but the films are strangely familiar as the spiritual forerunners of edgy contemporary fare. The first film will be Ed Emshwiller's sensual Image, Flesh, and Voice, followed by Fuses, Carolee Schneemann's swirling devotional to sex and nature. The program finishes with Austrian-born Kurt Kren's Versuch mit synthetischem Ton, a two-minute exploration of synthetic sound.
Time: Monday, June 23 (7pm)
Location: BAM Rose Cinemas - 30 Lafayette Ave in Bklyn

Outdoor Films...

The Bride of Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein’s monster is lonely, and his creator has just the remedy. Starring Boris Karloff and the inimitable Elsa Lancaster, this brilliant movie is funny, thrilling and ultimately heartbreaking. Come see this classic film outside, one of the few sequels widely considered to surpass the original.
When: 5:00 PM, film begins at sunset Monday, June 23th
Where: Bryant Park - Between 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues
FREE!

More Great Films...

All is Fair: Romantic Short Films

Come watch a series of short films about improbable romance and the search for love in illogical places along with live music from alt-country and blues trio Deer Trick.
When: Friday, June 20th
Where: Open Road Rooftop – 350 Grand Street

Special Show...

Inner/Outer Space

Monkey Town’s latest offering, Inner/Outer Space, is a multimedia showcase of film and music contrasts the forward-thinking mania of the Space Race with the era’s tendency toward psychedelic introspection.
When: Wednesday June 18 (8:30pm)
Where: Monkey Town, 58 N 3rd St.

Bond is Back...

Dr. No

The lawn opens at 5:00 pm for blankets and picnicking. The film stars the original James Bond, Sean Connery, and the ultimate Bond girl, Ursula Andress, who face a mad scientist living in Jamaica.
Start: 5:00 PM, film begins at sunset Monday, June 16th
Location: Bryant Park - Between 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues

Great Film...

Captured

Come watch the story of Clayton Patterson, a prolific photo documentarian of the Lower East Side for 30 years.
Start: Friday, June 13th
Location: Open Road Rooftop – 350 Grand Street

Rooftop Films Screening...

Rooftop Films Panorama

This week the Rooftop Film Series hosts Making the Mission, a short-films festival accompanied live by country goths O'Death; Captured, a doc following LES activist and documentarian Clayton Patterson, with live music from A.R.E. Weapons; and Industriance, a short-film fest and panel discussion about communities in transition.
When: Thursday June 12 (8pm)

Awesome Films!

The 4th Reel Rhythms World Music Film Festival: Africa

The 4th New York film festival on music from around the world focuses on the rhythms, drumming and dancing of Africa, bringing its diverse and vibrant peoples and cultures to the screen in documentaries and live concert footage. Today the films Calypso at Dirty Jim's and War/Dance will be shown.

Location: Symphony Space / Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater- 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street
Start:
Calypso at Dirty Jim's 7:30 PM and War/Dance 9:15 PM

Brooklyn Matters...

Screening: Brooklyn Matters

"Brooklyn Matters" is a documentary, which reveals the fuller truth about the Atlantic Yards proposal and highlights how a few powerful men are circumventing community participation and planning principles to try to push their own interests forward. Isabel Hill, producer/director will be at the event to discuss her film.

Start: 7:00PM Monday, June 9th
Location: Park Slope Methodist Church, basement, Sixth Avenue at Eighth Street

Rooftop Films are Back!

This is What We Mean by Short Films

If you want to hear live music, see great short films, and attend a fun after party, Open Road Rooftop is the place to be tonight for the official opening night of Rooftop Films 2008. This summer marks their 12th year of outdoor film screening and tonight they will be kicking it off with a series of astonishing and inspirational short films.

Start: 8:30 PM live music, 9:00 PM film screening, 11:30 PM after party Friday, June 6th
Location: Open Road Rooftop – 350 Grand Street

Rubin Movie Night...

CabaretCinema Series: LA CRAVATE @ Rubin Museum of Art

The actors in this short, avant-garde film mime actions based upon Thomas Mann's play The Transposed Heads, a tale of a Parisienne selling human heads. Directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky, with Denise Brossot, Rolande Polya and Saul Gilbert.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Film and Booze How Can You Go Wrong!

BROOKLYN FILMMAKERS COLLECTIVE BETA presents: 15 FILMS IN 30 MINUTES @ GALAPAGOS ART SPACE

What do you get when you challenge 15 independent filmmakers to make 2-minute films about "Brooklyn" and "change?" Come and find out tonight at the Galapagos Art Space when members of BROOKLYN FILMMAKERS COLLECTIVE BETA will be showcasing their two minute films. There will also be music and some excellent drink deals. It promised to be a night of film not to be missed!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: $7

Classic Cinema...

CabaretCinema Series: ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER @ Rubin Museum of Art

Academy Award winner Joel Grey introduces this classic Vincent Minnelli film. Most well-known as the Emcee from the film version of Cabaret, Gray is an accomplished film and stage actor, and photographer whose work is part of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Public Library permanent collections.

The film centers on the eccentric Daisy Gamble (Barbara Streisand) who, when hypnotized by a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) to stop smoking, regresses into past lives and bewitches the psychiatrist in the process. Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane; also starring Jack Nicholson and Bob Newhart.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Evolution fo Bugs.... Bunny that is

Putting Looney In The Tune, Hosted By Canemaker @ Academy Theater

Some of the great cartoons being brought back to the big screen for this viewing is "Porky's Duck Hunt" (1937), "Heckling Hare" (1941), and "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957). This screening is a double tribute to Tex Avery and Michael Maltese who were the Warner Brothers Execs responsible for getting these cartoons to the screens. The screening will be hosted by Academy Award Winning Animator John Canemaker. Should be an amazing night at the theaters for any fan of cartoons!

@ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International
Location: 111 East 59th st (map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: $5

A Night of Tackling Social Issues in Film..

Moviehouse Presents Do The Right Thing and Dark Days w/ shorts by Lauren Kritzer and Robert Castillo@ Galapagos Art Space

Here is another stellar moviehouse line up! This month is features two movies that have successfully tackled important social issues from race relations ( Do The Right Thing) to the homeless (Dark Days). So come on out either to watch Spike Lee's brilliant film making or to dive in to the depths of the homeless underground with the groundbreaking documentary, Dark Days. Either way it should be a great time. Be sure to come early to watch two great shorts from to excellent filmmakers Lauren Kritzer and Robert Castillo.

This is the best bang for your buck, don't miss it out!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $5

Classic Movie.....

BRAINWAVE, CabaretCinema Series: LA CITE DES ENFANTS PERDUS (THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN) @ Rubin Art Museum

Come check this classic Sci Fi film that is a spooky masterfully made fantasy.

Set in a bizarre and fantastic dystopian city, the eccentric scientist Krank (Daniel Emilfork) and his twin brother kidnap children to steal their dreams to prevent premature aging. In a bittersweet journey, One (Ron Perlman) and orphan Miette (Judith Vittet) travel to The City of Lost Children to find One's baby brother and put an end to Krank and his evil Cyclops army. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) and Marc Caro; also starring Jean-Claude Dreyfus and Dominique Pinon.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Tell me the story...

THE STORY OF BUDDHISM, presented by the film-maker Benoy Behl @
Rubin Museum of Art

Shot in 74 major Buddhist locations Benoy Behl’s visually striking films provide a comprehensive perspective of the monuments and art heritage of Buddhism in India: to the places of Buddha’s enlightenment, his first sermon and final renunciation.

The films cover a wide range of the heritage of both Theravada and Mahayana-Vajrayana orders, providing a view of the richness of the whole Buddhist tradition. Mr. Behl, the producer and director is one of the most prominent documentary film-makers in India. He is also a world-renowned art historian and an authority on Buddhism, and is invited to lecture at prestigious universities, museums and Buddhist temples around the world.

Mr. Behl will present the film, and will take questions from viewers following the screening.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 7:00 PM
Cost:$12

Hilarity...

Found Footage Festival @ Anthology Film Archives

The national touring showcase of odd and hilarious found videos is back for another year of brand new hilarity. Following last years sold out stint around the country, the boys are back with new videos that are crazier and funnier than the prior batch! Be sure to not to miss out of what is to be a night of bizarrely entertaining showcase.

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 7 and 9 PM
Cost: $10

Classic Aussie film...

CabaretCinema Series: THE LAST WAVE @ Rubin Museum of Art

Come and check out this free screening of one of Peter Weir's bests.
In this classic thriller/fantasy, premonitions, bizarre weather and unexplainable occurrences plague an Australian corporate tax lawyer (Richard Chamberlain) when he takes on a murder case involving Aboriginals. Directed by Peter Weir, and also starring Olivia Hamnet and David Gulpilil. Gets some drinks and enjoy the film.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

From The Twisted Mind of David Lynch..

CabaretCinema Series: ERASERHEAD @ Rubin Museum of Art

Defying traditional linear narrative and interpretation, David Lynch's surrealist masterpiece Eraserhead is set in urban decay as Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) cares for his reptilian, mutant child who incessantly cries, causing (what might be) disturbing hallucinations. Also starring Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, T. Max Graham, and Allen Joseph.

Writer Christopher Sorrentino (Trance, Sound on Sound) and Joseph LeDoux and The Amygdaloids (the science-themed rock band) introduce the film.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

A Drummer Shot This...

Seeing Through the Fence @ Bluestockings

Here is a film for activists, vegans and film lovers of all kind! It's a heartfelt documentary that has gotten amazing acclaim. So it will be screening across the country. Be sure not to miss the NYC preview.

@ Blue stocking Book store
Location: 172 Allen Street (map)
Starts: 7 Pm
Cost: Free

Classic Korean Films...

Screening of Kim Ho-seon's Young-ja's Heyday @ The Korea Society

Classic Korean films lost in time, but now getting screen for one day only at the Korean society. This months screening is colorful melodrama of lust and innocence lost, Young-ja's Heyday was a box-office hit and serves as a flamboyant introduction to a key Korean genre: the hostess film. Told through the reminiscences of an old flame, this cautionary tale of a woman's tragic moral and physical downfall has drawn comparisons with Kenji Mizoguchi's elegiac films which also focus on unhappy and exploited women. Starring Yeom Bok-sun, Song Jae-ho, Choi Bul-am.

@ Korean Society
Location: 950 Third Avenue (map)
Starts: 6:30 Pm
Cost: $5 (members) and $10 (non-members)

Trippy Double Bill....

Moviehouse Presents Wizard of OZ and Willie Wonka & The Chocalate Factory @ Galapagos Art Space

Here is another stellar moviehouse line up! This month is features two of the classic fantasy films of everyones childhood, The Wizard of OZ and Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. So come on out to relive your childhood or take some drugs of some sort and have a completely other tripped out experience. Either way it should be a great time. Be sure to come early to watch the classic short films from Brooklyn filmmaker Ken Brown.

This is the best bang for your buck, don't miss it out!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $5

Mad Old Films..

A Century Ago: The Films of 1907 @ The Academy Theater @ Lighthouse International

Tonight there will be a screening of 6 short films from 1907, which will be used to showcase this transitional year the cinema. To fully portray the year of creative expansion there will be a mix of categories including actualities, primitive dramas and gag films. The films that will be featured are The Haunted Hotel, Ben- Hur, Les Kiriki, the Dancing Pig and The Teddy Bears. All of these movies will screened to an original score being performed live by Michael Mortilla. It should be an entertaining night of the classic silver screen.

@ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International
Location: 111 East 59th st (map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: $5

Sci Fi Insanity...

CabaretCinema Series: eXistenZ @ Rubin Museum of Art

Come and check out this insane Sci fi Thriller from the mind of the legendary director David Cronenberg. The film is about a video game designer who tests her latest, completely immersive virtual reality game and is nearly assassinated in the process. Come and embark on an adventure that blurs the lines of reality and fantasy as The designer and her new bodyguard venture back in to the game. The film stars Jude Law and Jeniffer Jason Leigh

Hearst editor Pat Towers introduces the David Cronenberg film.

@ Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Scifi Classic Screening.....

CabaretCinema Series: SOLYARIS (SOLARIS) @ Rubin Museum of Art

Based on Stanislow Lem's novel, the classic Andrei Tarkovsky Sci-Fi film revolves around a secretive space station orbiting the planet Solaris that has been making little scientific progress over the years. Psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to the station to investigate, but he begins to experience hallucinations, including seeing his wife who has been dead for seven years.

Critic and essayist Phillip Lopate ("American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now") introduces the film.

@ Rubenstein Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 9:30 PM
Cost:Free, But $7 Minimum Bar tab

Oscar Brilliance...

Monday Nights with the Oscars Presents Leave Her To Heaven @ The Academy Theater

Come and witness for yourself this newly restored Oscar winning classic tonight at the Academy theater. After the screening will be followed by an onstage discussion hosted by Robert Osborne with Darryl Hickman about being on the set of the movie and what it was like dealing with movie stars. Should be a great night.

@ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International
Location: 111 East 59th st (map)
Starts: 3 PM
Cost: $5

Classic Movie and a Discussion..

Brainwaves Presents a Screening of Being There with Discussion Following @ The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination

How does imagination function and in what ways do life experiences shape it?

The 1979 film Being There stars Peter Sellers as Chance, a man who has never left his home and learns everything from television, will be shown followed by a roundtable discussion with leading experts in the fields of psychology and developmental science that will examine the portrayal of the film’s anti-hero, the impairment of the imagination and the biology of the imaginative process.

Roundtable Participants: Dr. Margaret Browning, Dr. Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Dr. Paul Harris, Alan Leslie, Rebecca Saxe

@ The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination
Location: 247 East 82nd Street, 3rd Floor (map)
Starts: 1:30 p.m
Cost: Free

Not to miss Screening...

Sci Fi Screening Room Presents KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park @ UNDER St. Marks

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Be sure not to miss out on this absolutely amazing screening, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. This made for TV movie starring Kiss is a must see for any fan of the band and/or B Movies. Should be a smashing good time! Don't miss the after party at Lit Lounge With a Kiss cover band!!

@Under St. Marks
Location: 94 St. Marks Place (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: FREE if you wear Kiss Make up, $7 for anyone else

The Ultimate Movie Line Up....

Moviehouse presents Royal Tenenbaums, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Brooklyn Shorts @ Galapagos Art Space

Here is a night of classic movies that range from quirky families to quirky crazy people with a side of extremely talents Brooklyn filmmaker shorts. It's a night cinema that celebrates the greats as well as the up and comers. For a price less than admision to a mainstream movie you get a full night of cinema as well as an after party which makes for an unbeatable night in Brooklyn! Be sure to check it out! The shorts featured tonight both tell tales of deteriorated relationships.

Vartan LLP by Myles Price
Carlough Brothers by Will Carlough

As always there's free popcorn for everyone and free drinks for the winner of the
red jumpsuit trivia contest!!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $5

Sex and Film... but not porn.. ok kind of

Cinekink NYC Tribute Screening of Shortbus @ Anthology

As part of Cinekink NYC 2008, which a festival comprised of films that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality. There will be a tribute screening of the film Shortbus, that glorious art film that has more sex and nudity than any Cinemax "skinemax" movie ever made. But it's not a porn because the actor have real sex which isn't that sexy which keeps it an art house film... Anywho go and check the screening.

@ Anthology
Location: 32 Second Avenue (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: 6 for Students, 8 for anyone else

CineKink Kick off....

Cinekink NYC 2008 Kick off Gala and Opening Night Screening @ Taj

Tonight will kick off the 5th annual Cinekink NYC festivals which is a festival comprised of films that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality.

The opening gala will include music, performances, free cocktails, a kinky fundraising auction, and a feature screening of a special trio of cinematic wonders including:

Schwarzwald- A rich, modern tapestry combining elements of Druidic ritual with the passionate, leather-clad goings-on that transpire at NYC's annual Black Party, the movie follows the travails of the Black Prince as he is pursued through the woods and kidnapped by the nefarious underlings of the conniving Black Queen. Starring Buck Angel, the world famous female-to-male transsexual porn star, along with a cast of literal thousands, this is a sumptuous visual feast.

Team Queen- The best of New York burlesque in a gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling, post-punk rock 'n roll prom!
World Premiere!
A Dog's Tale- Sensuous and layered, a black-and-white reverie on control and submission, longing and desire.

Not a bad way to kick off the festival!

@ Taj
Location: 48 W. 21st Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $15

Screening of Oscar Winning Shorts..

Saturday Afternoon with the Oscars Featuring "Shorts" @ Directors Guild of America

Come and see the 5th annual presentation of the Live action and Animated short films nominated for the 80th Annual Academy Awards. The show will be hosted by Robert Osborne. This will be the one chance to see every short film nominated for the awards before the winner is announced on Sunday!

Best Animated Short Film

-I Met the Walrus
-Madame Tutli-Putli
-Même les Pigeons vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)
-Pigeons vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)
-My Love (Moya Lyubov)
-Peter & the Wolf

Best Live Action Short Film
-At Night
-Il Supplente (The Substitute)
-Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
-Tanghi Argentini
-The Tonto Woman

@ Directors Guild of America
Location: 110 W. 57th St (map)
Starts: 12 PM
Cost: $5 For Public, $3 for members and students w/ ID

Shorts filled with love....

Love Actually: Short Films about Love, Sex & Romance @Millenium and After Party at White Rabbit

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Come and check out this showcase of some of the bright young filmmakers out right now at Millennium. Since it is Valentines Day, the theme of the films shown will be Love, Sex and Romance. Afterwards come and enjoy some appetizers and drinks at the White Rabbit Lounge!

Current Film Lineup:
"Teat Beat of Sex" - Signe Baumane
"Last Night I Had My First Orgasm" - Jahidah Diaab
"Idioicon" - Brian Gonzalez
"Eyes of a Blue Dog" - Brian Gonzalez
"The Coffee Bird" - Bryan Brinkman
"A Fly Film" - Bryan Brinkman

There will be a short Q & A after the screening.

Screening:
@Millenium
Location: 66 East 4th Street (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $8 online > $10 at door

After Party:

@ White Rabbit
Location: 145 E. Houston (map)
Starts: 10 Pm
Cost: Free

Emily Haynes is HOT and She ROCKS...

Metric, "Live at Metropolis" DVD screening @ Galapagos Art Space

If there is anything that to say about Metric is that they put on probably one of the highest energy live shows that i have ever seen. Emily Haynes goes totally balls to the wall on stage and really taps in to her punk rock side! I am so glad to see that this awesomeness as been documented on a DVD, and is totally worth a screening of its own. So check out this screening of the new Metric DVD tonight at Galapagos Art Space. If you aren't a fan of Metric, you will be one after you see this DVD!

Stick around after the screening for a DJ spinning Electro,
Dance, Indie, New Wave, and Party Jams.

Plus Lots of FREE GIVEAWAYS - Metric CDs, Records,
Posters and more!!!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: Free

A Progressive Movie Screening...

GoLeft.org Progressive Movie Night Presents: "V for Vendetta" @ Empire State College

GoLeft.org will be sponsoring these screenings of popular progressive movies to help build a community and ignite discussion between the viewers of the movie. This months film is "V for Vendetta" which was pretty controversial for it's vigilante main character and main concentration on creating anarchy and overthrowing the government. I would say it is a perfect movie to begin this movie series with since it has a very strong message that will most likely create some excellent discussions. There will also be free refreshments as well as a chance to win prizes! Be sure to check it out!

@ Empire State College
Location: 325 Hudson Street, 5th flr (map)
Starts: 7 PM

Classic Night of Film...

Moviehouse presents Casablanca and Punch-Drunk Love along with two of NYC's best shorts and an afterparty featuring the visual delights of VJ Clay Franklin @ Galapagos Art Space

This monthly screening is one of the best put together events in Williamsburg. Not only do they pick some classic Hollywood films to show back to back, but they also feature two shorts films from Brooklyn filmmakers to help raise awareness of the talent happening in the area. If that isn't already absolutely amazing, there is an afterparty featuring the trippy visual arts of VJ Clay Franklin!

All in all an off the hook amazing time full of film and music. Delicious!

This Months Featured Short Films:

In By Modern Measure, filmmaker Matthew Lessner parodies post-modern
art romances with a hilarious subtitled comedy.

In Terminally Ambivalent Over You by Aleksey Budovsky, a prisoner
works in a gramophone factory and pines for his girlfriend.

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $5

Screening and Discussion...

Filmmaker Jem Cohen Screens + Discussions @ The Change You Want To See Gallery

"Filmmaker Jem Cohen doesn’t need to smack you over the head with speeches or movie stars or coincidence-driven scenarios to make his point. Instead, he draws it out in the artifacts, detritus, and details of the city. On the one hand he presents the fragments of a periphery that normally go unseen. But rather than bringing a lost landscape into new focus, Cohen manages to bring it into an indistinguishable blur. It is in this shift from the particular to the universal that we can locate a radical politics. "

Come and join Jem as he screens excerpt from his films Chain (2004), Lost Book Found (1996), and selected shorts.A Q & A will follow which should be realy interesting.

@ The Change You Want To See Gallery
Location: 84 Havemeyer Street(map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: Free

Special Screening...

King: A Film Record ... Montgomery To Memphis @ The Academy Theater

In celebration of Martin Luther King day there will be a special screening of the original 1970s print of King: A Filmed Record.... Montgomery to Memphis. This epic three hour Oscar nominated documentary is comprised mainly of newsreel and other footage of the period including the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 through the assassination of the civil rights leaser in 1968. All of this footage is beautifully tied together with the speeches of Martin Luther King and dramatic readings of his works from such luminaries of stage and screen from people like Harry Belafonte,Paul Newman and many other cultural icons of the time. Also included in the movie tickets will be a pre-screening discussion with associate Producer Richard Kaplan and a discussion after the film as well.

Should be an excellent way to celebrate the life and time of Martin Luther King.

@ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International
Location: 111 East 59th st (map)
Starts: 3 PM
Cost: $5

My New Addiction

Pop Cultures Addicts One Stop Website: getTRIO.com

Being an absolute avid reader of anything having to do with pop culture. I stumbled upon this amazing website which has everything from your television round ups and celebrity gossip to the hottest events in NYC(* which is perfect for me!). getTRIO.com is your one stop website for gossip, the latest in technology and anything you feel you need to keep up with current trends!

getTRIO.com brought to my attention two excellent movies, one newly released on DVD,called King of Kong. Which is a documentary that follows two characters as they strive to break the Guinness Book of World Records top King Kong Score. Sounds pretty entertaining!

Also a cross genre comedy/ horror flick that has kind of haunted my dreams since watching the trailer called Teeth. "It's not a straight-up teen comedy, not quite horror, and not really a drama -- though when a chaste high school student becomes the target of male violence and discovers herself to have an anatomical quirk that makes her a living example of the vagina dentata myth, things get uncomfortably funny, horrifying, and very dramatic, indeed." The film was the talk of Sundance, with its dark take on sexual power and payback. Sounds off the wall! Be sure to check out more about it on the website!

@getTRIO.com
Location: Internet
Starts: RIGHT NOW!!

Award Winning Documentary..

Inside the Circle @ Walter Reade Theater

As part of the Dance on Camera Festival this award winning documentary about the raw power and defiant creativity of a home-grown hip-hop movement, through a captivating story about Omar, Milky and Romeo as they struggle to keep dance at the center of their lives. It's a movie ham packed with as much emotional intensity as jaw dropping dance moves. A must see film! Also the screening will be followed by a Q & A with the director and the main characters.

@Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center Plaza
Location: 165 West 65th Street (map)
Starts: 3:30 pm
Cost: $11

Breakthrough Actor of the Year!!

Discussion with Josh Brolin @ The Time Center

After a year of career defining year roles that have shown Josh Brolin's diversity including as "No Country for Old Men," where he plays a man who discovers $2 million in cash, "American Gangster," in which he plays a crooked detective, "Grindhouse" where he plays a brutish husband in and a small-town police chief in "In the Valley of Elah," this busy actor is having a breakthrough year! Be there as he discusses his amazing career, and the legendary actors and directors that he has had the opportunity to work with. Should be a great event and an interesting story of an actor who started with Goonies!

@ The Time Center
Location: Columbus Circle (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $25 (BUY NOW)

Kinky Cinema Can't Be Beat!!

CINEKINK With Maria Beatty @ PIONEER

Tonight at the Pioneer Theater there will be a double header of Maria Beatty's works featuring her signature "erotic noir" style that depicts a ride between pain and pleasure at the hands of a beautiful temptress. Just thinking about it is getting me all hot and bothered. The screening will include:

THE ELEGANT SPANKING
Goddess Rosemary seduces and punishes her Kitty in a play of dominance and submission, creating a fantasy world of nostalgic images that are dripping with sexual perversion.

And

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Caught in the act of coveting her mistress' position, a young maid must submit to her sadism and her lust, her perfect body made the theatre for a re-enactment of the lessons of the Seven Deadly Sins.

..Afterwards there will be cocktails at Chine 1 around the corner, which is a nice way to top off a night of "erotic noir".

SCREENING LOCATION:

@ Pioneer Theater
Location: 155 E. Third Street(map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $10 (6.50 for students)

AFTERPARTY LOCATION:
@China 1
Location: 50 Avenue B (map)
Starts: Following the Screening

Killer Double Feature...

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and Clockwork Orange @ Galapagos Art Space

Tonight at Galapagos art space, there will be a back to back screening of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and A Clockwork Orange. Get ready to be wrapped up in some of the most drug drenched minds of the 60s. First join Hunter S Thompson, while he ventures on his drug induced joy ride with his lawyer across the dessert and in to Sin city. Then be prepared to drive right in to Stanley Kubrick's psychedelic anarchist masterpiece. Definitely be sure to bring the drugs for these two flicks! Also there will be short film screenings from some local Brooklyn filmmakers. This week they will be showing:

Fantasie in Bubblewrap- Where all the little bubbles contemplate their own existence just before they pop.

To close the evening, VJ Clay Franklin splices together found footage, classic scenes and crazy stuff he made himself.

As always there's free popcorn for everyone and free drinks for the winner of the bunny pajamas trivia contest. All this of just $5.

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $5

Whoa

Dance on Camera Festival 2008 Presents Descent @ The Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center Plaza

Dancing on film is pretty damn cool so I would have to say every event that is at this festival worth checking out, but Descent is beyond it is a masterful film that must be seen! Come and check it out it's Choreographed and directed by Noémie Lafrance. Noémie will introduce the short film Descent, a site-specific performance with twelve women positioned on each floor of a twelve story stairwell in the NYC courthouse "The Clocktower" on Friday, January 4 at 8:30pm.

@Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center Plaza
Location: 165 West 65th Street (map)
Starts: 8:30
Cost: N/A

Great Screening and Lecture

Monday Night With the Oscars presents Moonstruck @ Lighthouse International

Tonight, Monday night with the Oscars will be screening the classic Academy award winning movie "Moonstruck". This quarky romantic comedy about an Italian-American family in Brooklyn that succumbs to the mysterious sway of the moon is an absolute crowd pleasers that garnered awards best lead and supporting actress (Cher and Olympia Dukakis)among others. This special screening will also be followed by a discussion with special guest Olympia Dukakis. Be sure not to miss this special night of cinema!

@Lighthouse International
Location: 111 East 59th (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $5 General Public, $3 for members or students IDs

You Will Shoot Your Eye Out.....

Moviehouse presents A Christmas Story @ Galapagos Art Space

Get in the holiday mood with this classic movie filled with BB guns, sexy legged lamps and the most horrifying tongue stuck to pole sequence ever! Along with the screening will be three of NYC best shorts and an afterparty featuring the visual delights of VJ Clay Franklin and the DJ rhythms of Nate Mars. What a night!

@ Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $5

Bad Boys of the Folk Scene...

The Holy Modal Rounder..Bound To Lose @ Anthology Film
Archives

Starting tonight, this new documentary on the bad boys of folk will be running for a week at the anthology film archive jammed backed with other special events and guests coinciding with screening every night!

synopsis: The film chronicles the bizarre forty year history of The Holy Modal Rounders,a 1960's Greenwich Village psychedelic folk duo (sort of like "AMighty Wind on Amphetamines"). Featured in the film are DennisHopper, former band member Sam Shepard, Peter Tork of The Monkees,Wavy Gravy, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Dave Van Ronk, The Fugs, Loudon Wainwright III, among many others.

Tonights Events:

Intro: Peter Stampfel/Gary Lucas

with rare Holy Modal music videos

Closing Night Music: rare one-off by the legendary Du-Tels (Peter Stampfel/Gary Lucas)

@ Bowery Poetry Club – 308 Bowery

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors; $5 for members.

Bad Boys of the Folk Scene...

The Holy Modal Rounder..Bound To Lose @ Anthology Film
Archives

Starting tonight, this new documentary on the bad boys of folk will be running for a week at the anthology film archive jammed backed with other special events and guests coinciding with screening every night!

synopsis: The film chronicles the bizarre forty year history of The Holy Modal Rounders,a 1960's Greenwich Village psychedelic folk duo (sort of like "AMighty Wind on Amphetamines"). Featured in the film are DennisHopper, former band member Sam Shepard, Peter Tork of The Monkees,Wavy Gravy, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Dave Van Ronk, The Fugs, Loudon Wainwright III, among many others.

Tonights Events:

Intro: Nick Tosches

with Kevin Rafferty’s “President Nixon’s Inaugural Address 1969”

Music: Muscular Christians

@ Parkside Lounge - 317 E. Houston St

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors; $5 for members.

Win Tickets!!!

Win a Pair of Ticket to the Dec. 12 premiere of Nanking @ Film Forum!

For all you loyal WUNY readers out there, we here at Whats Up NYC have acquired a pair of tickets to this new documentary Nanking at The Film Forum and want to give them to you! It is an amazing movie that is a must see, so be sure to enter for your chance at the free tixs! All we need is your name and home address. Good Luck!

Synopsis: A new documentary, Nanking tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China during World War II. The events of the film are told through emotional interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners’ letters and diaries as performed by Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, Jurgen Prochnow, and Stephen Dorff, among others.

Nanking premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 and was the winner of the 2007 Sundance Documentary Editing Award. Lou Reed recently wrote two songs inspired by the film that you can listen to here: http://www.loureed.com/00/mp3/index.html

Enter Here!

Rules and Private Policy

http://www.nankingthefilm.com/

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)

Bad Boys of the Folk Scene...

The Holy Modal Rounder..Bound To Lose @ Anthology Film
Archives

Starting tonight, this new documentary on the bad boys of folk will be running for a week at the anthology film archive jammed backed with other special events and guests coinciding with screening every night!

synopsis: The film chronicles the bizarre forty year history of The Holy Modal Rounders,a 1960's Greenwich Village psychedelic folk duo (sort of like "AMighty Wind on Amphetamines"). Featured in the film are DennisHopper, former band member Sam Shepard, Peter Tork of The Monkees,Wavy Gravy, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Dave Van Ronk, The Fugs, Loudon Wainwright III, among many others.

Tonights Events:

Intro: Lenny Kaye

with Ed English’s “The Fugs” and Harry Smith’s “Mirror Abstractions”

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors; $5 for members.

Win Tickets!!!

Win a Pair of Ticket to the Dec. 12 premiere of Nanking @ Film Forum!

For all you loyal WUNY readers out there, we here at Whats Up NYC have acquired a pair of tickets to this new documentary Nanking at The Film Forum and want to give them to you! It is an amazing movie that is a must see, so be sure to enter for your chance at the free tixs! All we need is your name and home address. Good Luck!

Synopsis: A new documentary, Nanking tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China during World War II. The events of the film are told through emotional interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners’ letters and diaries as performed by Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, Jurgen Prochnow, and Stephen Dorff, among others.

Nanking premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 and was the winner of the 2007 Sundance Documentary Editing Award. Lou Reed recently wrote two songs inspired by the film that you can listen to here: http://www.loureed.com/00/mp3/index.html

Enter Here!

Rules and Private Policy

http://www.nankingthefilm.com/

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)

Bad Boys of the Folk Scene...

The Holy Modal Rounder..Bound To Lose @ Anthology Film
Archives

Starting tonight, this new documentary on the bad boys of folk will be running for a week at the anthology film archive jammed backed with other special events and guests coinciding with screening every night!

synopsis: The film chronicles the bizarre forty year history of The Holy Modal Rounders,a 1960's Greenwich Village psychedelic folk duo (sort of like "AMighty Wind on Amphetamines"). Featured in the film are DennisHopper, former band member Sam Shepard, Peter Tork of The Monkees,Wavy Gravy, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Dave Van Ronk, The Fugs, Loudon Wainwright III, among many others.

Tonights Events:

Intro: Robert Christgau

with Paul Lovelace’s “Robert Christgau: Rock n’ Roll Animal”

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors; $5 for members.

Bad Boys of the Folk Scene...

The Holy Modal Rounder..Bound To Lose @ Anthology Film
Archives

Starting tonight, this new documentary on the bad boys of folk will be running for a week at the anthology film archive jammed backed with other special events and guests coinciding with screening every night!

synopsis: The film chronicles the bizarre forty year history of The Holy Modal Rounders,a 1960's Greenwich Village psychedelic folk duo (sort of like "AMighty Wind on Amphetamines"). Featured in the film are DennisHopper, former band member Sam Shepard, Peter Tork of The Monkees,Wavy Gravy, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Dave Van Ronk, The Fugs, Loudon Wainwright III, among many others.

Tonights Events:

Short films by William Ferris

Music: The Velocity Ramblers (featuring Peter Stampfel, John Cohen, Sam Shepard, Walker Shepard, Pat Conte and Betty Berkin)

@ Pianos - 158 Ludlow St

4PM & 10PM

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors; $5 for members.

Bad Boys of the Folk Scene...

The Holy Modal Rounder..Bound To Lose @ Anthology Film
Archives

Starting tonight, this new documentary on the bad boys of folk will be running for a week at the anthology film archive jammed backed with other special events and guests coinciding with screening every night!

synopsis: The film chronicles the bizarre forty year history of The Holy Modal Rounders,a 1960's Greenwich Village psychedelic folk duo (sort of like "AMighty Wind on Amphetamines"). Featured in the film are DennisHopper, former band member Sam Shepard, Peter Tork of The Monkees,Wavy Gravy, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Dave Van Ronk, The Fugs, Loudon Wainwright III, among many others.

Tonights Events:
Intro: John Cohen

with John Cohen’s “End of an Old Song”

Live Music at Anthology after Screening: The End of the World Banjo Band (featuring Peter Stampfel, John Cohen and friends) at Anthology

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors; $5 for members.

Bad Boys of the Folk Scene...

The Holy Modal Rounder..Bound To Lose @ Anthology Film Archives

Starting tonight, this new documentary on the bad boys of folk will be running for a week at the anthology film archive jammed backed with other special events and guests coinciding with screening every night!

synopsis: The film chronicles the bizarre forty year history of The Holy Modal Rounders,a 1960's Greenwich Village psychedelic folk duo (sort of like "AMighty Wind on Amphetamines"). Featured in the film are DennisHopper, former band member Sam Shepard, Peter Tork of The Monkees,Wavy Gravy, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Dave Van Ronk, The Fugs, Loudon Wainwright III, among many others.

Tonights Events:

OPENING NIGHT SPONSORED BY SIXPOINT BREWERY

Musical Intro: Jeffrey Lewis

with short film by Jud Yalkut’s “The Godz”

Live Music at Anthology after Screening by Peter Stampfel & Jeffrey Lewis and The Jitters

Open Bar with Music Ticket!

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors; $5 for members.

Continuation of the Festival....

James Shigeta Film Festival @ Theater 200 Cantor Film Center

Tonight be sure not to miss the double bill screening of “Bridge to the Sun” & “Walk Like A Dragon”. It should be an excellent night of James Shigeta films.

@Theater 200 Cantor Film Center
Location: 36 E 8th St (map)
Starts: 6:30 PM
Cost: Free (w/ RSVP)

Screening & Q &A....

James Shigeta Film Festival @ Theater 200 Cantor Film Center

Tonight a screening of the classic film “The Crimson Kimono” will kick off this film festival celebrating the works of James Shigeta. There will also be a Q & A with the actor after the screening. Should be a great night of film.

@Theater 200 Cantor Film Center
Location: 36 E 8th St (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: Free (w/ RSVP)

Always a great night of film

FunFest @ Rapture Cafe

Tonight come and check out this monthly film festival jammed packed with great talent from all over the NYC area. FunFest guarantees a FUN evening of entertainment! It also gives you a chance to network and talk with the film makers. Also there will be food and drink, plus a winning film at each event! Should be a great time and it's all free!

@Rapture Cafe
Location: 200 Avenue A (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: FREE

Was she the original Cougar??

Moviehouse Presents The Graduate and Some shorts from local filmmakers @ Galapagos Art Space

Tonight at Galapagos art space, there will be a screening of The Graduate.Be seduced again by the sensual Mrs Robinson as she makes the moves on a young Dustin Hoffman in this classic film. There will also be short film screenings of local Brooklyn filmmakers. This week they will be showing:

In Twitch by Leah Meyerhoff a young girl comes to terms with her emerging sexuality, her disabled mother and thoughts that her mother's paralysis is contagious.

In Dad, Look by Bohdana Smyrnova, a teenager follows a couple on the streets of Chelsea. Only later to we discover their connection.

Also there will be a DJ and a VJ merging together their music and video projects for a complete visual dance experience of synergistic brilliance that is not to be missed. As always free POPCORN FOR ALL!! Awesome!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $5

Brilliant Actor Speaks...

Javier Bardem: transformation on the film @ The Time Center

The Academy Award nominated and soon to been winner in my opinion, Javier Bardem will be discussing his new film, No Country For Old Men. Where he portrays probably one of the most horrifying villains I have ever witnessed on the silver screen, as a psychopath who is leaving a trail of bodies as he hunts down the man who stole his money. Best performance of the year, hands down. So be there as he discusses his new mesmerizing performance with New York Magazine editor Lynn Hirschberg. Should be an excellent conversation.

@ The Times Center
Location: 242 W 41st St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $25

Brilliant Director...

Mira Nair @ The Time Center

Tonight the brilliant director, Mira Nair will be discussing her work with New York Times critic Caryn James. Be there as Mira divulges about her upbringing and the influence that impacted the making her films such as Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake.

@ The Times Center
Location: 242 W 41st St (map)
Starts: 6 PM
Cost: $25

The Ultimate Face Off....

Bowie vs. Gallo @ Monkey Town

Tonight Vincent Gallo and David Bowie face off with the ultimate vampire back to back screening. First off check out the classic 80s horror flick the Hunger, which will be followed by Trouble Every Day. Who will win the battle for the feyest of them all? David Bowie or Vincent Gallo? You will have to find out for yourself!

@ Monkey Town
Location: 58 N 3rd St (map)
Starts: 8:30 PM
Cost: $10 food minimum

Nirvana "Unplugged" and U2 "Live In Paris" Free Screenings

See two of the world's most influential bands live on the big screen tonight for one night only! Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" and U2's "Live In Paris" will be shown in surround sound complete with free admission, prizes and giveaways...

@ Tribeca Cinemas
Location: 54 Varick St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: FREE

A Flick and an After Party..

CINEKINK Screening of "Web Cam Girl" @ PIONEER

Here is a double feature that will bring you in to the world of web cam girls and then in to the classic porn lifestyle of Dick Ho. Should be an interesting night:

"Webcam Girls"
A funny and engaging visit with four outspoken pioneers of the girlcam frontier. Ducky Doolittle seduces her cyber-fans with a heady mix of fun and sexuality. Ana Voog uses her cam as a 24/7 performance art vehicle. Dionne Lowen quit her job selling cars to open an ethical porn site. And Teresa Senft, adding her notions of biography, privacy and micro-celebrity, declares that rather than 15 minutes of fame, in the future "everyone will be famous to 15 people." (Directed by Aerlyn Weissman, 2004, Canada, 52 minutes.)

preceded by

"Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star"
A look at the "mythical" 70s porn legend, Dick Ho, who was allegedly so well endowed that rumors of a porn industry conspiracy to eliminate any knowledge of his existence persist today. ( Directed by Jeffrey Lei, 2004, USA, 31 minutes. With Sharon Mitchell, Kay Parker, Annie Sprinkle and Mika Tan.)

And after that just go around the corner to China 1 for a Cinekink afterparty!

SCREENING LOCATION:
@Pioneer Theater
Location: 155 E. Third Street(map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $10 (6.50 for students)

AFTERPARTY LOCATION:
@China 1
Location: 50 Avenue B (map)
Starts: Following the Screening

Screening at two boots..

Film Screening: Out of the Book- David Halberstam’s The Coldest Winter@ Two Boots Pioneer Theater

Out of the Book, is a new concept of the literary world fusing together film-making and the literature to enhance the reading experience. The premise of the project is to present a series of 30 minute films featuring renowned authors in their personal surroundings, discussing their latest works and giving audiences a glimpse of their lives. The goal is to give the viewer a look in to the creative process of the writer and his work to fuse a spirited discussion of the subject and enhance the readers appreciation for the book. Tonight the screening will be of late historians, David Halberstam's latest novel the Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War which has been getting some rave reviews. Following the film will be a dramatic reading from this compelling historical novel and the evening will conclude with a panel discussion by those who know the author and his subject best.Panelists include Out of the Book producer Dave Weich, Korean War veteran Jack Murphy (who was interviewed by Halberstam for the book), and novelist John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road and a close friend of Halberstam. A Q&A session will follow.

@ Two Boots Pioneer Theater
Location:3rd Street at Avenue A (map)
Starts: 6:30
Cost: $10 ($5.00 with purchase of The Coldest Winter at McNally Robinson)

Always a good time....

FunFest @ Rapture Cafe

Tonight come and check out this monthly film festival jammed packed with great talent from all over the NYC area. FunFest guarantees a FUN evening of entertainment! It also gives you a chance to network and talk with the film makers. Also there will be food and drink, plus a winning film at each event! Should be a great time and it's all free!

@Rapture Cafe
Location: 200 Avenue A (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: FREE

Excellent Interactive Experience..

The Lost Film Festival with VJ Scott Beibin @ The Change You Want To See Gallery

What makes Lost Film Fest unique is that it’s an interactive experience incorporating storytelling with short films. It features narrative shorts, documented pranks, and hot amateur protest footage from around the world appropriately called Riot Porn by the festival organizers. Festival director Scott Beibin spins the films in the same way a house DJ spins records, shifting the playlist spontaneously depending on the mood of the room. Imagine Mystery Science Theater 3000 mixed with a heavy helping of Che Guevera and Pee Wee Herman. That is a killer mix that is guarantees a pretty amazing night. Don't miss out!

@The Change You Want To See Gallery
Location: 84 Havemeyer Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: $5-10 sliding scale

Great Screening

Stills To Reels... Kareem Black Film Screening @ The Gallery at Harriet's

So... here is yet another, not to miss event at The Gallery @ Harriet's. There will be a screening of new works on film by 3 amazing photographers... Kareem Black, Akintola Hanif & Delphine Diallo.

So be sure to check out the screening and stay for shopping and drinks afterwards! The last gallery event was crazy, over 200 folks came through, so be sure to RSVP and get your FREE screening pass.

@ Harriets Alter Ego Boutiue & Art Gallery
Location: 293 Flatbush Avenue (map)
Starts: 5:30
Cost: Free! GET PASS HERE

Genious at work....

DAVID LYNCH, Behind the curtain: the artist at work @ IFC CENTER

Check out this film that A film that gives us a rare glimpse into the
fascinating mind of the man who created such visionary classics as Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet,Twin Peaks, Wild At Heart, The Elephant Man and more..

Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of Lynch's creative process as he completes his latest film, INLAND EMPIRE. We are with him as he discovers the beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision.

The director of the documentary immersed himself in David Lynch's world, living and working at Lynch's home for over two years. His unobtrusive style has captured a personal side of David Lynch not seen
before.

@IFC center
Location: 323 Avenues of America (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: TBA

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETLEJUICE!

Beetlejuice @ Galapagos Art Space

Moviehouse presents Beetlejuice with two wonderful animated shorts and an afterparty featuring the visual delights of Clay Franklin and the DJ rhythms of Nate Mars and Keith Oqueli at Galapagos Art Space at 8pm. As always there's free popcorn for everyone and free drinks for the winner of the Ectoplasmic trivia contest.

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost:FREE

The Month of Blood and Gore

Trigger Man @ Pioneer Theater

If you aren't in to the CMJ festival going on in the city and need a reminder of the Halloween to come here is a great option. Opening tonight at the Pioneer Theater is this horrifying movie based on true events! Here is a synopsis:

On 5/20/06 at 7:04 am three old friends traveled from New York City to Wilmington, Delaware for a day long hunting excursion. It was planned as a final reunion before one was to be married. The events that transpired that day were more horrific than any of them could have imagined.

Be ready to get the sh** scared out of you because according to the Producer "With TRIGGER MAN we're going for a more immediate, more visceral, more verite feeling. This one should be appalingly real."

@Pioneer Theater
Location: 155 E 3rd St (map)
Starts: 9 PM , runs untils Oct 24
Cost: $10 (BUY TIX)

Definite Movie to Check out!!

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL Starring Ryan Gosling

Quirky loves story of somes sorts starring Ryan Gosling. How can you go wrong? Check out the synopsis:

Written by Six Feet Under scribe Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl is a heartfelt comedy starring Academy-Award nominated Ryan Gosling as Lars Lindstrom a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him. He introduces Bianca to his Brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and his wife Karen (Emily Mortimer) and they are stunned. They don’t know what to say to Lars or Bianca – because she is a life-size doll, not a real person and he is treating her as though she is alive. They consult the family doctor Dagmar (Patricia Clarkson) who explains this is a delusion he’s created – for what reason she doesn’t yet know but they should all go along with it. What follows is an emotional journey for Lars and the people around him.

@ Check your Listings!

Halloween Horror flicks for all!

Wrong Turn 2@ Pioneer Theater

What can get better than a free screening of a sequel to an already horrible movie? Well first off this one stars Henry Rollins who is kicking ass and taking names. Secondly did I not mention that Henry Rollins is in it and he is bad ass? So embrace your love for crappy horror flicks and come and check out this entertaining blood bath of a movie!

Summary: A group of reality show contestants find themselves fighting for their survival against a family of hideously deformed inbred cannibals who plan to ruthlessly butcher them all.

@ Pioneer Theater
Location: 155 E 3rd St (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Cost: Free w/ RSVP

Jam Packed Night of Horror Flicks...

Texas Chain Massacre + Three horrifying short films! @ Galapagos Art Space

Tonight at the Galapagos Art Space is an excellent line up of Horror films that will get you pumped for the upcoming Halloween. First start off with three excellent horror short films directed by local filmmakers that will make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Then for the feature presentation they will be showing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I am not sure which version, but I am guessing they would probably go with the classic. Well I guess the best way to find is to check out the screening and I mean how can you say no when you get FREE popcorn and an afterparty featuring the
visual delights of Clay Franklin and the DJ rhythms of Nate Mars!

@ Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: Free!

Influential Documentarian at library

Ken Burns and Robert Stone a conversation on 'The War'@ New York Public Library

Come and join a night of conversation with Ken Burns and Robert Stone about Ken Burn's new documentary about the World War II called 'The War'. The film tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of more than 40 men and women from four quintessentially American towns —Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota—who experienced and helped to win the most extraordinary war in history. Woven largely from their memories, the narrative unfolds as the war unfolded—month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. The film series explores the most intimate human dimensions of a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America demonstrating that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives. Should be a fascinating night of conversation between such scholars of their field.

*students, seniors and library donors recieve a 33%
discount on their tickets.

@New York Public Library
Location: 42nd Street near 5th Avenue (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $40

Short films, Booze and a band....

Brooklyn Film Collective 15 films in 30 min. + Live performance by the Middle Eight @ Ad Hoc Art Space

Come celebrate the first season of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective tonight at Ad Hoc Art Space. Festivities include 15 short films by the members, all the beer you can drink for $10, a live performance by the Middle Eight and DJ Jer Turits will be spinning all night long. This is definitely going to be an amazing night in Brooklyn! Not to be Missed!

@Ad Hoc Art Space
Location: 49 Bogart St
Starts: 8pm
Cost: $10

Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective is a group dedicated to creating and advancing an active filmmaking community in Brooklyn. The collective focuses on weekly peer workshops where members present their works-in-progress and receive feedback and support from other group members. Go to brooklynfilmmakerscollective.com for more info.

Legendary Short Film Festival...

Tropfest @ Tribeca

Tribeca Enterprises is launching a new festival, Tropfest@Tribeca. T@T is a free outdoor shorts fest that will premiere 16 films specifically made for the festival. It’s based on John Polson’s Tropfest in Australia which draws 150,000 in one night to take in the festival and has the same energy of a music festival. The offerings include stories of chaos, friendship, murder, and heroism—and a surprising total of 4 shorts about pizza.

@World Financial Center, Battery Park
Location: 1 World Financial Center (map)
Starts: 5 Pm
Cost: Free

cool indie film fest

FunFest! New York's Bi-Weekly film festival @ Rapture Cafe

FunFest! guarantees a FUN evening of entertainment. You can also meet, network, talk with the film makers, refreshments, plus a winning film at each event! A great night of independent film making that is an excellent time all around, be sure to check it out.

@Rapture Cafe
Location: 200 Ave A (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: Free

Doc on 9/11..

FilmFest Reloaded @ Karl's Klippers

The weekly FilmFest Reloaded series continues tonight with an encore presentation of the Maria Pusateri documentary, Vito After.A story of the life of 9-11 first responder, Brooklyn homicide detective Vito Friscia. It is an intimate portrait of a selfless cop and devoted husband and father, who - like thousands of others - now faces an uncertain future.

@Karl's Klipper
Location: 40 Bay St (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Cost: Free

Is this right??

Team America @ The New Moon Theater

A little American pride, sick humor and some puppet sex to light up one of New Yorks/America's darkest days. Check out the new Rooftop Moon Theater in Brooklyn, it's pretty nice!

@ The New Moon Theater
Location: 97 Moore (map)
Starts: 7 pm
Cost: Free!

Waters Raunch at MoMa....

Pink Flamingo @ Museum of Modern Art

This John Water's classic has got to be one of the raunchiest movies that has ever been screened at the MoMa! If you don't know anything about the movie let me put this in to perspective. A 300-pound transvestite Divine eats real dog poo. There are also chickens crushed between copulating lovers and black-market babies sold to support pornography. The fact that it still shocks viewers after 35 years makes the movie something of a miracle.

@MoMa
Location: 11 West 53rd Street (map)
Starts: 6:30 pm
Cost: Free? (Click Here)

Two Excellent Movies to check out..

Romance & Cigarettes + 3:10 to Yuma

Definitely two movies that are totally different, but both very intriguing. First off, A musical starring none other than James Gandolphini (Tony Soprano singing? Weird), Kate Winslet and the always brilliant Christopher Walken. A down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York, tells a story of a husband's journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife (hmm this kind of sounds like a Soprano conflict). Still is should be a blast! That is if you like musicals.

@Film Forum
Location: 209 W Houston St (map)
Screens: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 & 10pm
Cost: 10.50

Secondly, there is 3:10 to Yuma. I feel all I have to say is it has Christian Bale, Russell Crowe and Mr. Easy Rider himself Peter Fonda in a gunslinging western. I mean how much more Bad Ass can you get? the story is about a small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. Wow I am way too excited for this movie!

Nationwide release, so check your local listings for theaters.

Discovering Clean Bling....

Bling: A Planet Rock @ BAM Rose Cinemas

What happens when Paul Wall and his famous bejeweled grills accompany Wu-Tang's Raekwon to Sierra Leone? In this unlikely documentary, they discover the aftermath of war, the truth behind conflict diamonds, and the concept of clean ice. Come and join this enlightening journey.

@ BAM Rose Cinemas
Location: 30 Lafayette Avenue (map)
Cost: $12
Start Times: Click Here

Donkey Kong ain't got s***t on me!...

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters @the IFC Center

In 1982 Billy Mitchell, a kid who'd already set a bunch of high scores and been dubbed "Gamer of the Century" by whomever decides that kind of thing, set the high score for the arcade version of Donkey Kong. More than twenty years later, Steve Wiebe, a 35-year-old public school teacher, decided to make something serious of his life and aim for the record. Director Seth Gordon did what any good documentarian would've done: Document it. A Fistful of Quarters is the outcome.

@ IFC Theater
323 6th Ave (map)
Showing times: 11.10a, 12.50p, 2.40p, 6.30p, 8.30p, 10.25p
Cost: $11

Touring festivals hits brooklyn...

Gadabout Film Festival @ 1087 Broadway (above Goodbye Blue Monday)

The Gadabout is a nationally touring film festival that screens a program of 20+ international short films. Independent in every sense, these films share the same willingness to challenge the conventions set for film making. Tonight these truly innovative independent movies will be shown in Brooklyn. Come and check the visionaries that keep film making fresh and intriguing. Also stay for the party, New Paltz NY's DIY with Ghost Mice, Ned, and one or two more. Then DJ Suggested D will start the dance party.

@1087 Broadway ( Above Goodbye Blue Mondays)
Location: 1087 Broadway (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $5- $10 suggested donation

Pee Wee is Back!.. I think I am happy

BIG TOP PEE WEE @ Coney Island Museum

Take a Saturday night trip out to Coney Island Museum to see a classic movie as strange as Coney Island itself! Big Top Pee Wee is coming back to the big screen to fly through the sky, passing his prison sentence and going straight back into your hearts. All you have to do is pay for admission and the popcorn is on the house. Pee Wee Herman wouldn't have it any other way.

@Coney Island Museum
Location: 1208 Surf Ave (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: Amission (POPCORN included in price!)

Cross Dressing and Marilyn Monroe...

This movie has got a little bit of everything Marilyn Monroe, men in dresses, gangsters and extremely entertaining gender confused love stories, sounds like a regular Shakespearean comedy to me!

When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. An absolutely excellent movie!

@Tribeca Grand
Location: 2 Avenue of the Americas (map)
Starts: 9 PM
Cost: FREE (w/ RSVP)

Cross Dressing and Marilyn Monroe...

Some Like It Hot @ Tribeca Grand

This movie has got a little bit of everything Marilyn Monroe, men in dresses, gangsters and extremely entertaining gender confused love stories, sounds like a regular Shakespearean comedy to me!

When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. An absolutely excellent movie!

@Tribeca Grand
Location: 2 Avenue of the Americas (map)
Starts: 9 PM
Cost: Free(w/ RSVP)

Carmen in South Africa.....

U-CARMENEKHAYELITSHA @ Socrate Sculpture Park

Georges Bizet’s Carmen is magically transported to modern-day
South Africa. “The setting brims over with the same wicked
froth of danger, exoticism, and passion that 19th-century
Seville must have had before it got stylized into oblivion.”

@Socrates Sculpture Park
Location: 3205 Vernon Blvd (map)
Starts: sunset
Cost: Free!

Hitchcock classic closes out the Festival...

HBO Summer Film Festival Presents Psycho @ Bryant Park

This summers line up of old movies was absolutely exceptional mixing classics with just as good lesser known films. What better way to end out the summer film festival then screening Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Psycho. A piece of work that still holds up with it's dissonant music and the unbelievably creepy performance by Anthony Perkins.

Alfred Hitchcock directs Janet Leigh as an unfortunate lady-on-the-run who checks into the remote Bates Motel. There she encounters the creepy owner, played by Anthony Perkins in his career defining role, and meets a ghastly fate.

@Bryant Park
Location: 1098 Avenues of America (map)
Starts:Sunset (typically between 8pm and 9pm)
Cost: FREE!

I Wanna Go To Summer Camp!.....

Reel Life Moviehouse screening of Wet Hot American Summer with Dead Tired and False Alarm @ Galapagos

It's third week in August meaning another amazing night of cinema at the Galapagos Art space. Tonights feature is the absolutely hilarious star studded summer camp comedy, Wet Hot American Summer. Jammed packed with quirky characters and classic quotes this movie will have you on rolling on the floor laughing. So come on out and spend the last day of camp with Beth, J.J., Coop and the kids in Wet Hot American Summer. Also they will be showing two fantastic shorts by local filmmakers Danielle Burgos and Casimir Nozkowski.

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost:FREE!

Who can say no to dancing Penguins??...

River Flicks For Kids Presents Happy Feet@ Hudson River Parks pier 46

I don't care if these movies are meant for kids, there is absolutely no person on the planet that can resist singing/dancing penguins. It just warms the soul and makes you feel all fuzzy inside. Even though there are some plot holes in this movie, it doesn't really matter when penguins are singing Prince songs. Also Robin Williams is hilarious as the voice of like four different characters. So basically everyone come out and enjoy the fun of Happy Feet whatever age you are.

@Hudson River Park
Locations: Hudson River Parks Pier 46 (map)
Starts: Dusk (8-9)
Cost: Free

Controversial Leader revealed in Doc...

Screening of Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind @ Brecht Forum

Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind, the first comprehensive documentary to tell the life story of this controversial leader, uses a wealth of material from the Garvey movement-written documents, film and photographs-to reveal what motivated a poor Jamaican to set up an international organization for the African diaspora, what led to his early successes, and why he died lonely and forgotten. Among the most powerful sequences in the film are articulate, fiery interviews with the men and women whose parents joined the Garvey movement more than 80 years ago. Together they reveal how revolutionary Garvey's ideas were to a new generation of African Americans,West Indians and Africans and how he invested hundreds of thousands of black men and women with a new-found sense of racial pride.

@Brecht Forum
Location: 451 West Street (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: Suggested Donation, $6/$10/$15

Beer Beer Beer.......

Beerfest @ Hudson River Park's Pier 54

What a classic movie for this years theme of "films with characters who overcome in surmountable odds to prove that they are right and the rest of the world is wrong." Watch as this group of beer guzzling Americans take on the world in this underground beer competition. Will they be able to beat the Germans and win back their fathers beer recipe? Come and find out. Also as always first come first serve and free popcorn for everyone! It will be an amazing night of cinema under the stars.

@Hudson River Park, Pier 54
Location: Pier 54 (map)
Starts: Dusk (around 8 or 8:30)
Cost: Free!

Here's Looking at you Kid...

The HBO Bryant Park Film Festival Presents Casablanca @ Bryant Park

Definitely one of Bogart's and Bergman's best roles and jammed packed with classic quotes. This timeless masterpiece of a film which takes place at Rick's Cafe Americaine, the gin joint where intrigue, romance, valor and compassion collide at the edge of Europe during WWII. Humphrey Bogart sticks his neck out for nobody, except beautiful Ingrid Bergman, the love who left him years ago in Paris. This will be an absolute treat to watch on the big screen in Bryant park so come early get a great seat and get ready to be dazzled by this classic movie.

@Bryant Park
Location: 1098 Avenues of America (map)
Starts:Sunset (typically between 8pm and 9pm)
Cost: FREE!

A Bollywood Friday Night.....

Bollywood In Brooklyn: Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin / Dj Rekha's Bollywood Disco @ Prospect Park Bandshell

Come check out the bell-bottomed dreaminess of Rishi Kapoor and Tariq as they lip-synch and boogie their way through three hours of musical numbers in the 1977 Bollywood classic Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin. Nasir Hussain's dizzying Technicolor action-romance tells the story of Kajal, a heavily mascara'd heiress who gets caught up in a plot to hunt down a cache of diamonds as well as (surprise!) a melodramatic love triangle. Keep an eye out for spectacularly low-tech, high-impact scenes, like Kajal floating through India's skies on balloons. DJ Rekha, of Basement Bhangra, hosts this evening of irrepressible song and dance — a much less creepy alternative to Travolta in a fat-suit.

@Prospect Park Bandshell
Location: Prospect Park West & 9th Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 Pm

Get we get a little Darkside of the Moon Here?...

RIVERFLICKS for KIDS Presents WIZARD OF OZ @Hudson River Park's Pier 46

Even though this weekly free movie event is set for kids, the movies are just so good that everyone should want to check out these screenings! This week is the classic Wizard of OZ which is always a crowd pleaser. If you aren't a fan of the movie by itself, bring your ipod and sync up Darkside of the Moon with the movie. That's always a trippy good time! Seating is first come, first served, and as always the popcorn is free!

@Hudson River Park's Pier 46
Location: Pier 46 (14th st and the Hudson River) (map)
Start: Btwn 8 or 8:30
Cost: Free!

We 3 Kings be stealin the gold...

Three Kings@ McCarren Pool

Tonight at McCarren Pool come and see a free screening of David O. Russell's debut masterpiece, Three Kings. The story takes place in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, when 4 soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who are desperately in need of their help. The acting is superb from the whole cast ranging from the always brilliant George Clooney all the way to Spike Jonze who is best known for his behind the camera work, but is superb as the redneck soldier who is definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed. A must see movie, definitely WUNY approved!

@ McCarren Park Pool
Lorimer St btwn Bayard St & Driggs Ave, Greenpoint (map)
Time: Music @ 7, Movies @8 PM
price: Free!

Classic Ayn Rand Adaptation...

The Fountainhead @ The Elevated Acre

King Vidor directs Gary Cooper in this brilliant adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel about an idealistic young architect confronting the establishment. The story captures the power of the press and politicians to mold a city in their own conservative image and the futility of a visionary trapped by his own idealistic principles. A conversation with filmmaker Caspar Stracke and a screening of his short No Damage (12 minutes, 2002), created from fragments of over 80 different feature and documentary films showing the architecture of New York City, precedes the film.

@The Elevated Acre
Location: 55 Water Street (map)
Start: Sunset (around 8 or 9)
Cost: Free!

A Saucy Marilyn Monroe..........

HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival presents Bus Stop @ Bryant Park

A classic Marilyn Monroe flick under the stars, how can you go wrong?

Marilyn Monroe, in a spectacular turn, is a hardened bar room singer who yearns for Hollywood but becomes the romantic focus of a naive rodeo cowboy. With his mind set on marriage, he tries desperately to take her home to Montana.

@Bryant Park
Location: 1098 Avenues of America (map)
Starts:Sunset (typically between 8pm and 9pm)
Cost: FREE!

A Night of Short Films From Rising Directors...

Scion Easy 10 Film Series - An Evening of Short Films & Cinematic Socializing @ Sandbox Studio

Tonight at the Sandbox Studio there will be a showcase of some of the upcoming directors new short films. Come on out to witness some of the young talent that someday could the be ones excepting an Academy Award. There will be short films by: David Choe & Pete Glover / Chris Cruse / Blue Davis & Danny Brown / Roger Gastman /Nemo Librizzi / Monihan Monihan / Reza Moosavi / Jack Pearley / Dennis White

@Sandbox Studio
250 Hudson St 11th FL (map)
Starts: 7 Pm
Cost: Free (w/ RSVP)

Free outdoor movies Galour!....

Out Door Cinema 2007 Presents The 5,000 Fingers oF Dr. T @ Socrates Sculpture Park

This movie can either be considered a classic stoner flick or a highly imaginative masterpiece. Actually I guess it can be both, but it makes sense due to the fact that this film remains to be Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel's only film. I mean look at all those classic Dr. Seuss books they are amazingly trippy! So be sure to check out this wild ride of a movie it should be a good time:

Dr. Seuss' 1953 musical about the perils of coerced collective labor — a thinly veiled metaphor for Ruskie economics — tells the tale of Bart Collins and his evil, authoritarian piano teacher, Dr. T, who is trying to enslave 500 little boys to play a gigantic piano. Teams of shirtless musicians parade around tooting on fantastical instruments, like a psychedelic Busby Berkeley show. This sterling example of Eisenhower-era psychic repression was filmed in glorious Technicolor.

@Socrates Sculpture Park
Location: Broadway @ Vernon Blvd (map)
Start: 7 PM
Cost: FREE!

mmm kinky cinema...

Cinekink Presents PornologyNYC @ Pioneer Theater

Come check out this engrossing documentary that won the Audience Choice Award - Best Documentary/CineKink in 2005! A paean to the New York sexual underground, circa 1970-85, this engrossing documentary brings together four of its most colorful protagonists. Our guide to the action is Michele Capozzi, urban explorer and self-titled pornologist, with an up-close introduction to Neville Chambers, founder of the infamous porn-producing Fuck Factory; Lenny Waller, long-time front-man of the meat-packing district's now-defunct Hellfire Club and renowned pornstar/mistress/shaman, Porsche Lynn - for a look back in time, an assessment of where we are today...and one very wild farewell party.

Filmmaker will be present.

Free pizza and beer reception follows for all ticket holders!!

@ Pioneer Theater
Address: 155 E 3rd St (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $10 (Purchase Here

And I was like EMIILLLIOOO.....

Repoman @ McCarren Pool

I have never seen this movie, but I read the summary and I feel it is now imperative for EVERYONE TO THIS MOVIE! Just listen to the IMDB sentence summary: "Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result." Add the fact that Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez star in it and I am sold. I hope that you are too. Come check it out McCarren Pool!

@ McCarren Pool
Lorimer St btwn Bayard St & Driggs Ave, Greenpoint (map)
Starts at: 8 PM
price: Free!

There is a documentary on the Peep...

Power of the Peep @ Anthology Film Archives

Yeah I know, I couldn't believe it the first time I read it! Alas someone has made a documentary chronicling the history of this delicious marshmallow treat that takes over everyones house every Easter. Check out the synopsis "Boxed in sets of five and staring out with sugar-blackened eyes, Marshmallow Peeps have been emerging like clockwork from a factory in Bethlehem Pennsylvania since the 1950s. They were born in the mind of a Russian immigrant, hatched in Easter baskets, and eaten by the dozens across the country. Then they armed themselves with lances, stood in front of trucks, mutated in microwave ovens and set out on their own. This is the story of what happened when a marshmallow met modern America. It’s the story of how a sweet candy product got to the shelves of your convenience store – and what happened after it left them behind." This sounds like an amazing movie, it sounds like a must see!

@Anthology Film Archives
Location: 32 2nd Avenue (map)
Time:3:00pm - 5:00pm
Cost: Free with RSVP

Punk's Not Dead - The Movie

Punk's Not Dead, a docufilm featuring interviews and rare footage is hitting New York City. "Sprawling and comprehensive, Punk's Not Dead takes the filmgoer into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios, and yes, shopping malls and stadium shows where punk rock music and culture was born and continues to thrive."

Features The Adicts, Bad Religion, The Damned, The Exploited, GBH, The God Awfuls, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Billy Idol, Minor Threat, My Chemical Romance, NOFX, Offspring, Pennywise, Pogo Atak, The Ramones, Rancid, Henry Rollins, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers, Subhumans, Sum 41, UK Subs, The Used, and many more.

View trailer HERE!

July 27 through August 2
@ City Cinemas Village East
181 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003 (Map)
More info: (212) 529-6998

New York International Latin Film Festival

8th Annual NYILFF!
The six-day schedule of events highlights the full range of Latino culture, targeting different segments of the community. More than just a film festival, NYILFF showcases more than 80 U.S. and international feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Industry panels and special events will include Dominican Night, Cinema Under the Stars, NYILFF New Music Showcase, NYILFF Vanguard and NYILFF Family Day.

Tickets @ Florence Gould Hall
55 E. 59th Street (btw Park & Madison)
Manhattan, NY
July 24-29

CLICK HERE for Showtimes, Tickets and More Info!

MOMA Flick..

Fabricando Tom Zé @ the MoMA

Tom Zé was one of the major forces within the Tropicália movement in Brazil in the mid through late 60s. Out of all the musicians who were part of the movement, including Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Zé took things musically (and visually for that matter) farther than anyone else, using typically non-musical objects like vacuum cleaners and typewriters alongside guitars and vocals, and winding dissonance and strange time signatures into his music. His career continues on today, and this film documents a tour from last year, when he was 70-years-old.

@ MOMA
Address: 11 W 53rd St btw 5th and 6th Ave (map)
Start Time: 6 PM
Cost: $10

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Influential Director speaks......

Norman Mailer on Film @ The Waler Reade Theater

Tough guys don’t dance. Norman Mailer says so and he’s a pretty smart dude. He was also a writer who directed films long before it be